Comments on: Snow Leopard Clean Install Tutorial

By: Balthasar

Balthasar — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:13:09 +0000

Worked great, thanks!
Only one program (WaveAgent) doesn’t want to start up any more. When I open a second account and reinstall, it works fine.
Seems to be a permission problem.
Permission-repair already done – no success.
Any idea here?

By: Jeff Owens

Jeff Owens — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:47:40 +0000

If you do a clean install it will reformat your hard drive and install Snow Leapard with all of the default drivers.

By: Darwin colgan

Darwin colgan — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:21:04 +0000

I will wait till lion deffo but say if i reinstalled snow leopard with my
Disk will all of the necersarry drivers be installed automatically

By: Assaf Soudry

Assaf Soudry — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:34:01 +0000

Great Jeff. Looking forward to giving this a go. I’ve been searching a few days for clear ‘How To’ article on Snow Leopard clean install. Thanks

By: Jeff Owens

Jeff Owens — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:49:32 +0000

Yes, you can reinstall snow leopard with your disk and iLife will still be there, however, I would wait and upgrade to Apple’s newest OS named Lion. It should be available from Apple very soon. To upgrade to Lion, you will first need to make sure you have updated Snow Leopard to the latest version. Then you will need to launch the App Store, which is where you will find the new Lion OS. To do a clean install of Lion you will have to burn the OS onto a DVD or thumb drive. I will most likely be doing a blog post on that topic once Lion has been released to the general public.

By: Darwin colgan

Darwin colgan — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:42:54 +0000

I bought the imac 2011 and the install mac osx
Snow leopard came with it is it possible to reinstall snow leopard with that and will all the neccersarry drivers automatically be installed and will ilife 11 be on there also

By: Jeff Owens

Jeff Owens — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:36:21 +0000

Absolutely. Migration assistant will prompt you and find all of your files on your external drive. Good luck!

By: Ali S

Ali S — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:51:36 +0000

Question – since superduper is creating an image of the original HD … can Migration Asst be used on the newly installed 10.6 computer to migrate files over from the superduper backup?

By: Jeff Owens

Jeff Owens — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:25:10 +0000

Balthasar, the Migration Assistant should bring back your files from a Time Machine backup just fine.

By: Balthasar

Balthasar — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:43:06 +0000

Does the Migration Assistant also bring back my files from a Time Machine backup?