Format Mac, restore with time machine?

[jiE]

Hello.
I have been taking backups regularly with Time Machine.
Now I need to format my Harddrive because the data cannot be allocated to make a new partition for windows 7.

How do I do it? I just stick in the mac os x install disc, and when its all done, I connect my time machine HDD and restore all my data?

Currently the Mac (MBP i5) is very slow at start up. More than a minute. Will that change? Or will the restore make the mac slow again??

thanks.

 

[GoCubsGo]

Basically, you just need to do an erase and install of OS X then migrate from your last TM backup.

 

[belvdr]

Basically, you just need to do an erase and install of OS X then migrate from your last TM backup.

I originally thought the same thing, but you don't even need to go that far.

If you have not excluded anything from the TM backups, boot the install DVD, repartition the disk with Disk Utility (with a smaller partition, of course) and then restore directly from TM. There's no need to install OS X as it will be restored from the backup.