Reformat required, but I don't have OS disc
Hi, I have a 13in macbook pro that I got summer 2009. So the install discs that came with the computer are Leopard install discs. When Snow Leopard released, I got a family pack of the OS which stays with my family while I'm away at college (so it is several hundred miles away from me atm). I'm wanting to partition my drive and have run Boot Camp so I can have Windows 7 on my computer as well. When I tried to partition using BC, I received a message saying that before it could partition that I would have to backup everything and reformat my HD.
The backup I have taken care of with Time Machine to an external but if I reformat, the default OS would be Leopard, would it not? I heard from a friend that since I have done a Time Machine backup, I can restore Snow Leopard from my external. Is this true and if so, how do I go by doing it?
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Probably not. Those discs are all specific to the model they came with, and generally won't boot any other model. If the older machine does boot to the newer DVD, you will probably be able to format your hard drive from it, but you may not be able to install the OS afterward.
A safer plan would be to clone your internal drive to the external drive that now holds your Time Machine backup. The clone will serve as a bootable backup in place of the non-bootable one created by Time Machine. Boot the MBP from the external drive and use Disk Utility to reformat the internal drive, install Windows using Boot Camp, and clone your Mac OS X clone from the external drive back onto the other partition of the internal drive. After this process is complete, if you choose, you can revert to using Time Machine to back your internal drive up to the external.
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