Need Help Restoring Snow Leopard from Windows 7

Hello, My Kid Cousin Installed Windows 7 On My mac and formated/deleted everything from the hdd. Luckily i still have my timemachine backups on a external hdd. I was wondering how do i go about reinstalling Snow Leapord on My Mac Pro? I'm running Windows 7 on it now. Thank You

Insert the Snow Leopard install DVD into the DVD drive and reboot the system. Hold down the c key or the Option key and then select the DVD disc as the startup option or with the C key it should boot to the DVD Snow Leopard Install disc. Repartition the drive using Disk Utility as One partition with a format of Mac Extended (Journlaed) with a partition table of GUID and name the drive Macintosh HD. Then click Apply. After that is done exit DU and select Retore from Time Machine Backup (Have the TM drive connected before you Reboot the system) after a period of time SL and all your stuff will be restored.

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