Can I uninstall and go back to lion?
My computer keeps restarting for no reason ever since I installed Mountain Lion. I have to much stuff on my computer to do a complete wipe out of the system. I hate this system. I have never had a problem untill this update.
There are two basic ways to revert to Lion:
1) Erase the internal harddrive completely and Restore your system from an external harddrive containing a full backup of your Lion based system BEFORE you upgraded to Mountain Lion.
2) Erase the internal hard drive and then begin over by installing the OS X version that came on the Original Installation Disks that came with your computer when you first bought it. Install all the Updates required by that OS X version from Apple downloads online. Then Upgrade that installation to the next OS X version that you installed later in time, such as Leopard up to Snow Leopard, or whichever, and install all its required Updates from online downloading. Continue this process until you are back up to the OS X version you want to stay with, Lion.
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