Snow Leopard Problems

[stephenxiii]

Im having a few problems with my new instal of snow leopard

1. When ever i shut my mac down and restart it says insert a bootable disk, i have to then restart again and hold down, the alt button and manualy select the macintosh hd
2. Time machine is taking longer o backup, and icon on the menu bar is always grey and not black.
3. system is running extremely slow

hope you can help in someway
Thanks

 

[Hellhammer]

Did you do an upgrade or clean install?

 

[stephenxiii]

Did you do an upgrade or clean install?

Upgrade, do you think i should back up and do a clean install
if so how do i do this?
sorry im a bit of a novice

 

[Hellhammer]

Upgrade, do you think i should back up and do a clean install
if so how do i do this?
sorry im a bit of a novice

Yes. I think clean install should solve your problems.

Boot from Snow Leopard install disc (hold down C while booting) -> Select Disk Utility from top bar -> Click your HD and select erase -> Erase it and install OS X -> Use migration assistant to get your files back to your HD

 

[stephenxiii]

thanks for your help, 2 of my 3 problems have fixed
the only other 1 is my time machine bac ups but i can live with that