Hey,
I've been having some minor issues with the 'spinning beach ball'/system freezing up, or not even being able to boot up and having to re-install Mavericks...
So I brought it in to a Apple store, and they suggested doing a clean install... I've held off until now, I'm getting a new SSD and will be doing this clean install in a week or so. Is it possible to do a clean install in Mavericks on a new SSD and still have my Time Machine backups available?
I know the one time I changed the name of the hard drive and Time Machine didn't like that... I'm assuming I'll have to name the new drive the same as the old drive was?
I'd rather not restore as they said at the Apple store that could re-introduce the problem, so I'd like to do a clean install, then restore from backup some files/apps and my email.
Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated!
I've been having some minor issues with the 'spinning beach ball'/system freezing up, or not even being able to boot up and having to re-install Mavericks...
So I brought it in to a Apple store, and they suggested doing a clean install... I've held off until now, I'm getting a new SSD and will be doing this clean install in a week or so. Is it possible to do a clean install in Mavericks on a new SSD and still have my Time Machine backups available?
I know the one time I changed the name of the hard drive and Time Machine didn't like that... I'm assuming I'll have to name the new drive the same as the old drive was?
I'd rather not restore as they said at the Apple store that could re-introduce the problem, so I'd like to do a clean install, then restore from backup some files/apps and my email.
Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated!
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