Preserve Users and Network Settings is grayed out

Hi, I was having some issues with my Mac so I decided to perform an archive and install. I currently have Snow Leopard 10.6.4. I popped in the disk but when I got to choosing install options, "Preserve Users and Network Settings" is grayed out. I want to keep all my data as it was and just reinstall Snow Leopard. Does this option appear later on in the installation? Is there a way to go back? It's currently installing Snow Leopard. Please help

Your Home folder may be in the Previous System Folder. Check to see if it's there and intact. Otherwise it's been moved into the new system. You need to make a backup of your Home folder on an external drive.
1. Boot from your Snow Leopard Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (for Intel Macs) or APM (for PPC Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU and return to the installer. Complete the installation. In the Setup Assistant be sure to use a different username/shortname for the new admin account than you used before.
5. Upon completion use Migration Assistant in the Utilities folder to migrate your Home folder from the external backup drive.

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So now I want to install Tiger on it, but when I get to the options installation window and click on the 'Archive and Install' button, the option to also 'preserve users and network settings' remains grayed out. I can't select it. Why so? I want to preserve the settings when I install Tiger.

zanzen wrote:
I have a Quicksilver with Leopard installed. I've learned that normally you can't install Leopard on this computer because the processor (733 mhz) is too slow. It works, but I've found that it does indeed run poorly.(The hard drive was transferred from another computer, with Leopard already installed.)
So now I want to install Tiger on it, but when I get to the options installation window and click on the 'Archive and Install' button, the option to also 'preserve users and network settings' remains grayed out. I can't select it. Why so?
because tiger installer doesn't know how to deal with leopard files as leopard was released after Tiger. downgraded like this is not recommended by apple.
I want to preserve the settings when I install Tiger.
you can't. however, if you do an archive and install without preserving user settings, your leopard home directory will be preserved in the Previous Systems folder at the top level of the hard drive. after you are done with the install of Tiger you can move what you need to your new home directory. move data files ONLY. don't move any preference files. they most likely won't work.
A better option would be to back up your data to an external and do an erase and install of tiger. you should make a backup anyway in case something goes wrong with the install.

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If that doesn't work you can always use a firewire drive and with carbon copy cloner, clone the drive. Then do a clean install and with the migration wizard import the users and network settings back. If you don't have firewire drive you can just do the Archive and Install without checking the "Preserver Users.." option. Your old users will still be in the "/Previous System/Users" folder.
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If I do an Archive & Install of my OS with this option off, will it keep my Users folder, or also erase it?
And would it do anything to it if I put the contents of my home folder in a new directory somewhere not in the Users folder?
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It won't erase it, but it will move it to the Previous System Folder, and because there are various permissions on all the thousands of files in your Users folder, it will be difficult to reset them all correctly. You're better off leaving the option on to Preserver Users and Network Settings.
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