I'm running into the blue screen issue on my macbook and seems like I might have to reinstall Snow Leopard. However, I don't want to loose my data and I once made a partition for the macbook on an external hard drive where I backed it up some time ago. Is it possible to still back it up?
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Chance I can back up from booted Disk utility?
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In Disk Utility, click "Macintosh HD" > New Image and then select the external HDD as place to store that image on.
Or this: http://www.macinstruct.com/node/147
Btw, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard does not erase any personal data when you do a default install and not a Clean Install of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard .
Or this: http://www.macinstruct.com/node/147
Btw, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard does not erase any personal data when you do a default install and not a Clean Install of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard .
Thanks a whole lot!!!!
After I back up the disk to an external HD, can I then do a clean install of SL and then restore the copied disk or should i migrate it?
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