I want to reinstall osx lion ontop of my existing lion, but I'm not shure how to do it
I have a macbook air with osx lion 10.7.3 About 2 weeks ago i had to do a complete reinstall from a timemachine back up.Whene i did this i lost my repair partition that came with my copy of lion .My machine came with lion preinstalled from the factory.I have a timemachine backup copy on an external disk and can access the osx recovery utility from this by restarting and pressing option at the same time.If i choose reinstall mac osx lion will it erase my existing copy of lion or will it install over it
It will install a fresh copy of OSX, and a Recovery HD, without disturbing anything else.
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I just bought a used computer with OSX 10.8 and want to reinstall OSX 10.6.3 Snow Leopard
First off you need to know the model identifier of the machine, not all Mac's can be reverted to Snow Leopard and not all Mac's can use the 10.6.3 Retail disk!
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Next you download MacTracker here and look up your machine and it's original operating system.
(Don't click the AppStore version obviously)
http://mactracker.ca/
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I'm afraid you did an error when erasing your hard-drive, this has automatically erased the "local recovery". In order to pass-by this, you must use a former Mac OS X installation DVD (such as Snow Leopard 10.6.3) and then when updated to 10.6.8 you may access the Mac App Store to recover the Yosemite Installer and proceed to a fresh "update" OR creating a Bootable USB Installation drive with DiskMaker in order to alway get a installation copy.
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http://www.apple.com/support/contact/
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http://www.titanium.free.fr/
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When you say OSX, which version do you want to reinstall?
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