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btcomm

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Oct 18, 2006
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If I did an archive and install and it for some reason was not able to go through, like it started but then my CD rom didn't read the disk properly would I be able to mount the disk with firewire to firewire to another computer and delete the new system folder and rename the previous system folder back to system and have it work like it did before? Or would the computer even boot at that point?
 
The archived system folder will not be able to boot your machine. However, as with any major system change such as this, you should be nicely backed up. From here you could install OSX either via a clean install whilst booted from the discs, or you could install it from Target Disk Mode.
 
I would suggest using the computer in question as a firewire target disk from another computer (through Firewire) and back up the previous system, then do a lean install.
 
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