Thank you Ronni, I think I'll quietly disappear from the office for 10 days or so.
Regards, Michael. On 6/10/09 12:02 PM, "Ronda Brown" <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > Reverting to an older system is never pleasant, but if he backed up > his Leopard System, before he installed Snow Leopard, it can be > relatively straightforward. > A) If before upgrading to Snow Leopard, he created a bootable > duplicate of his old Leopard System on an external firewire drive (or > another volume). > Follow these steps below: > > 1. If he modified any documents while working in Snow Leopard,be sure > to save a copy of these documents onto another volume before restoring > your cloned system. > > 2. Startup your Mac from a volume "other" than the one containing Snow > Leopard. > This can be the hard disk or partition where your duplicate system > exists, or any other volume with a valid Mac OS X System. > > 3. Launch your backup program (such as SuperDuper or Carbon Copy > Cloner). Follow the program's instructions for making a bootable > duplicate, choose the volume where the duplicate exists as the > "Source". For the "Destination" (or Target), choose the volume > containing Snow Leopard. > > 4. Start the backup. > > 5. When the backup finishes, choose the newly restored volume in the > Startup Disk preference pane and restart. > > Your computer should now be running your previous system again. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo > 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB > OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard > > > > On 06/10/2009, at 10:41 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: > >> >> My colleague with the one year old HP Laserjet printer P2014N which >> will >> not work now that Snow Leopard has been installed on his latest >> model iMac >> wants to uninstall SL and reinstall Leopard. >> >> Can that be done by simply installing Leopard as the OS? >> >> His iMac has two internal hard-drives, on only one of which he has >> installed >> SL. Would it be safe for him to back up his work on the SL drive to >> the >> Leopard drive? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Michael Hawkins. >> > > > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo > 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB > OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
