Hi All
Apologies for being a newbie with a question but I suppose I have to start somewhere!
I'm having an issue restoring my macs backup.
Basically my iMac 27's (3.06 2 Core) hard disk packed up two weeks ago. Luckily I had bought an iomega back-up drive the week before and had set-up time machine so my data is ok.
I got my mac back today from apple with a new HD and a new screen (I had a few dead pixels so they replaced my screen ;>). The first thing I noticed was that OS X 10.6.8 (Snow leopard?) was installed rather than Lion, which was what was on it when it went into the shop.
This means I cant just use the 'CMD-R' key combo at start-up and restore from my backup.
I also know that I cant re-install when I'm logged in (as you cant overwrite files that are in use).
So I'm a bit perplexed as to how I go about restoring my back-up.
To make things a bit more interesting my mac came back from the shop with a dvd boot-disk for Mac OS X 10.6.1!
(I might just use all these numbers when I next buy a lottery ticket!)
Can anyone tell me how I go about re-installing my Lion based back-up?
Regards
Craig.
Apologies for being a newbie with a question but I suppose I have to start somewhere!
I'm having an issue restoring my macs backup.
Basically my iMac 27's (3.06 2 Core) hard disk packed up two weeks ago. Luckily I had bought an iomega back-up drive the week before and had set-up time machine so my data is ok.
I got my mac back today from apple with a new HD and a new screen (I had a few dead pixels so they replaced my screen ;>). The first thing I noticed was that OS X 10.6.8 (Snow leopard?) was installed rather than Lion, which was what was on it when it went into the shop.
This means I cant just use the 'CMD-R' key combo at start-up and restore from my backup.
I also know that I cant re-install when I'm logged in (as you cant overwrite files that are in use).
So I'm a bit perplexed as to how I go about restoring my back-up.
To make things a bit more interesting my mac came back from the shop with a dvd boot-disk for Mac OS X 10.6.1!
(I might just use all these numbers when I next buy a lottery ticket!)
Can anyone tell me how I go about re-installing my Lion based back-up?
Regards
Craig.