Update OS X to 10.6.8 using the Combo Update for best results. Links in iTunes to music, playlists and iPhoto links especially. When you setup a first account, use the same user name as before, this way you can simply drag and drop the content of your previous Users folders from the external drive right back into the new Users folders and everything should work peachy. Then install all your programs from fresh sources and validate/update. When it's done, quit and install OS X 10.6. This should wipe the drive of ALL partitions (GUID, OS X and 10.7 Recovery, Windows if present)
On the left is the name of your hard drive maker, click it and Erase (format HFS+ Journaled), give it the same name as before, and click Erase.
Look at the Utilities Menu for Disk Utility. Hold c and boot off the 10.6 installer disk that comes with your computer and second screen in just STOP. (warning, everything will be gone and not recovered) If it wasn't, then leave it disconnected without updating to Lion.īackup ALL your Users folders (Documents, Pictures, Movies, Music etc) manually (drag and drop methods) to a (not TimeMachine) external powered drive (HFS+ journaled formatted in Disk Utility) and disconnect, your going to be wiping the entire disk of ALL DATA.
It will be your second backup system and will have to be wiped and setup again after successfully going back to Snow Leopard if it was connected to the OS X 10.7 boot drive. If you have a TimeMachine drive, update it and disconnect for the duration of this restore time. Read and print out these instructions, your computer is going to be offline and you wil be cutoff from help until your machine is restored.Ĭlear the Desktop, Downloads and Trash of anything you wish to keep by placing their files in the respective Documents, Music, Pictures, Movie folders. Back to Snow Leopard from Lion install method
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