On Feb 14, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Feb 14, 2010, at 10:44 AM, William Spencer wrote:
My next steps are to reformat the main drive and then put
everything back as it was. I assume that I need to boot from
either the backup drive or the install disc in order to do the
reformat and partition, but at that point is it better to
reinstall from the install disc or copy the backup back onto the
main HD? Logically I can't see how to install from the install
disc and still be able to get all the settings where they were,
since the drive I'm altering will be empty and won't have anything
for the installation to archive-and-install.
Do a clean install, and at the end it asks you if you want to
transfer your data and settings from another Mac or hard drive.
Make sure the backup is plugged in and select it as the source.
Or you can format and partition the internal and use Disk Util to
restore from the external drive for the SL part and then instal Tiger
in the other part. You can run disk util from about anywhere for the
restore bit...
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