How to do a clean install of Snow Leopard

[jgonza1536]

Awesome very helpful thanks!!

[bayne0927]

Hey bud, I happen to have a MacBook pro-2,2 2.16 ghz, 15" circa 2006. It's running 10.4.11(tiger) now. I purchased the snow leopard disk, and in process of adding to my RAM( from 1 to 2 gb). Following your excellent tutorial, will I be able to get the same outcome? I'll also back everything on my external, but will it be a prob to put everything back on?( aka iTunes, iCal, excel, word, etc)

Thanks for being there man!

[eLoveCR7]

no i dont have one? but i bought it used and cant clean it? help

i do have a code for a lion version but my macbook has 10.5.8?

[OmarIrausquin]

Hey great video. I have a question. I installed a new HDD into my Mac and I did a clean Snow Leopard install. What is the best way to put the Time Machine backup I have, back to my fresh install?

[TangDynasty83]

Can you do a clean install from an external hard drive?

[megaditya1]

can v do it on leopard???

[aura0noir]

thanks, very nice clear video

[ursnitesh]

thanks for the video mate..:D

[phily21eagles]

to add, its a clean install (snow leopard) on macbook. got a new 250 gb hdd 

[phily21eagles]

ive have tried everything ive read and seen and the install does not happen. i keep getting an error message saying that files could not be copied and to restart... from the first time installing it till now the blue bar seems to stop on the word on before the cd stops spinnig and i get that message.. can you help with that??

[ngafb]

Great video sir. Thank you.

[kempftamasfreemail]

I have installed lion, and I have my original Snow Leopard DVD, I can clean install Mac OS X Snow Leopard with use this tutorial?

[rlugturawr]

You should be able to do this installing from a usb instead of a disc? someone please reply quick im pretty new to macs

[jaskamal22]

Thnx for sharing this video!!!

[MultiRandom00]

hey i am wondering if this will work for version 10.6.4 or later and when i gott my dvds i only go application install dvd and mac osx install dvd can u please help me i have the macbook pro 13'' 2011

[hjato]

No login,window. And the is no dock. How do I fix?

[officialNickL]

Thank you!!! This helped a lot! Had too many problems with Lion and didn't know how to go back to snow leopard! Thanks a million times!

[Beezygetta]

ok i tried several thing im booting from an external hard drive formatted for Mac use and it boots up Snow leopard on my Macbook Pro 2006 but i always get this error og installation crash i get past the language selection but then get a grey screen. PLEASE HELP!

[a3vanzil]

Omg. This was sooooo incredibly helpful. Am trying to sell my old 2009 MacBook and I couldn't figure out how to erase everything. Thanks!!!!!!

[MacSources]

thanks

[KimCheeHuu]

what are the benefits of doing a clean install? i understand that your HDD will be "brand new" and that there's no junk in there to bog down the OS. but when you put back everything from your back up/time machine, wouldn't that just put all that "junk" back in there? that's the part that's confusing me.

[iVintageStars]

@musguelha14 yay! Thanks for looking out for others. =)

[tigger6121]

so after doing this, how do i get my time machine backup onto the computer? i want to make sure to get all my music, docs, movies, etc...back on the computer. (i am actually switching from my computer to my brothers...clean install since he is done with it and mine is dead...glad i backed it up!)

thanks for this video!

[iVintageStars]

@AppleGenius0921 I just ordered my Snow Leopard disc online. I'm a total newbie on Mac (Had PC for a long time) but i do know i'm running Tiger 10.4.11 wish me luck!

[musguelha14]

@iVintageStars What Mac do you have? Remember that for SL you will need an Intel Mac!

[iVintageStars]

@musguelha14 My macbook finder It says my processor is 2GH Intel Core Duo. I'm should be ok right?

[musguelha14]

@iVintageStars Yes, no problems!

[jmillah1]

i still need help i did as you said but its still sayin i need 1gb of RAM but its clean and everything please help

[LALOMAN18]

I'm a Windows 7 power user and have a clean powerful hackintosh and still know more than most of you Mac foolish fanboys... anyways.... some answers to maybe one of your questions who ever you can be....

All you need to do a fresh clean or update install is the $29 Snow Leopard "install disk".

You can do as many installs or upgrade you want on as many computers you like with the same disk.

If you do a fresh install & want to keep your programs, pic's, etc.. do a "time machine" backup.

[LALOMAN18]

When you finish re-installing SL and your on your desktop... upload your "Time Machine" backup that you made before the fresh clean install... Time Machine will warn you that the backup does not compair to your computer anymore but will let you reload all your apps and pic, music etc... exact that you won't get your custom settings which you will have to reconfigure if you had any. At least this will bring back all your programs without you having to re-install each & everyone of them again!...

[thegto2007]

hi.... I'm new to Mac ... I'm wondering while installing ... do you need OSX serials or do you need to save any drivers stuff like that? ...

[AppleGenius0921]

@thegto2007 No serials for installing, just the Mac OS X Install CD that you bought or got with your machine :)

[gharibae]

hi i bought a new disk of snow leaopard 10.6 and i tried to make a clean install i erased all the disks and data. But when it comes to where to install i get some errors i can't choose my disk it says to repartion it again

[AppleGenius0921]

@gharibae What in particular? Did it go successfully?

[KingOmar2333]

Thanks help me a lot

[XWarmBear71X]

Thank you for taking the time to post this tutorial.. found this Very helpful and very easy to follow.

[DAVE01568]

Thanks

[ThePOProductionz]

I have lion on my mac and it won't let me install snow leopard.. Will this help?

[aabateri]

I doesnt start the installation meny after i chosed mac os x install dvd... How can i solve this problem?! because when im installing via os x, it starts the installation and then after a while it reboots and then again nothing happens, i can just se a apple without a loading cirle, exactly like trying to from the disk. I use a mac os x snow leopard on the computer and im trying to reinstall with a orginial snow leoard disk bought yesterday

[wasy422]

Can someone help me?

Iv got a PC tht uses Windows 7, can i do a clean install of Snow Leopard?

Thanks

[XxCaSuAlTy]

hey nice video i have a quick question i bought an imac that has no operating system, off of ebay and i was wondering when i buy the snow leopord cd will i just have to install it and skip the steps you did? btw the imac is a core 2 duo with 2 gigs of ram thanks.

[joeyfitz9]

Great video, thanks so much for posting!!!!

[Blazerfreak2Gunz]

i kinda did the stupidest mistake of my life, friend gave me torrented OS of lion, and directly update the os on my hardrive (HATED IT SO GLITCHY), not thinking of partitioning it before installing it. Will this work to re-format and reboot the leopard OS and not Lion on my HD (not external) but directly on my hardrive?

[linhbamboo]

omg thanks so much. That helps mea lot..xoxo

[pedalman]

I did a osx upgrade to snow leopard and my Mitsubishi dye sub printer will not work now......it just stays paused and wont come out of pause. What comes up on the screen is this, usr/libexec/cups/backend/usb failed, any ideas anybody ?

[TheCzyzewski]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! you didn't show all the video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! D:

[uaekills]

dude can you help me i need to reinstall my mac os x snow leopard but the problem i forgot my admin pass so i am using a guest account account and every time i restart my macbook pro nd hold the op shin key it ask for a pass.

so pleas help?

thx

[suuunly]

Hi, can I format my macbook ( running Leopard 10.5.8 ) and then install Snow Leopard?

Or will I need to re-install Leopard and then upgrade to Snow Leopard?

[ Just wondering because, it´s after all: An update ]

[Myst3rySG88]

@TheLegendMan153 Im running with win XP

[burgandyblood]

I'm worried that if after I do a clean install time machine will back up but since I won't have any of my applications and files, will it erase everything on my external hard drive?

[taifuwa36]

great video!!!! saved in favorites

[Myst3rySG88]

Hi, I've tried to install windows and i accidentally deleted the mac partition.

and now i could not install the mac OS again as it stated the HDD was a Windows HDD. But i tried to let it load, it seem to hang.

Im in deep shit can any 1 help? thanks

[TheLegendMan153]

@Myst3rySG88 which windows are you running?

[NoIceOnParadise]

hey guys this really works, to clean my mac took 10mins and to install snow leopard took 30 mins

[whiteroninss]

What happends to the ilife content that was already installed to the computer? how do you reinstall ilife?

[AppleGenius0921]

@whiteroninss You would have to re-install iLife with the original install discs

[whiteroninss]

@AppleGenius0921 which disk would that be ? Out of the two disk that they give you the #1. Mac os x install dvd or #2. macbook applications install DVD?

[whiteroninss]

What happends to the ilife package? cause im looking at your dock and i cant see any of your ilife content??

[AppleGenius0921]

@whiteroninss It is not installed within OSX, so you will have to re-install it

[whiteroninss]

@AppleGenius0921 which disk would that be? out of the two they give you in the box #1. mac os x DVD or #2. Mac applications disk?

[whiteroninss]

@AppleGenius0921 which disk would that be? out of the two they give you in the box #1. mac os x DVD or #2. Mac applications disk?

[anel115]

I have a mac mini with panther , I want a CLEAN install of snow leopard .

and NOT an upgrade from panther to snow leopard.

Can I do it your way ???

[AppleGenius0921]

@anel115 How old is the computer? Can it support SL?

[sinar2006]

just wanna ask, why is it my macbook pro is getting slower, how to make it fast back???

[AppleGenius0921]

@sinar2006 Clean Install does the job :)

[davidskrist]

i did this , then i lost my ilife 09 :( how can i get it back ?

[iTalkApple96]

@davidskrist put in the applications cd that came with your mac when you bought it

[TreyMula]

I followed all your steps but i'm stuck on the screen with the white back ground and the apple logo help!!!

[Maqanq]

@TreyMula if u bought urs in 2010 and10.6.3 in there, u cant do this. wait till 10.6.5 comes in the store or any later version

[lesottaaa]

Very good :)

[thesoundofdistortion]

Mine to 46 minutes to format :( and now I gotta wait 30 more to install. Hope it all goes well. Thanks for the vid it was very helpful.

[dvader1005]

Awesome video

[SupTJay]

thanks sooo mucho

[Armaangandevia1]

doo doo do do do do doo do doo do oh sorry

[videomasters2468]

why does it have to be the journaled version ?

[AOOLF]

I will lose my information or this keep safe???

[applefanatic1]

Awesome video bro! Helped a lot! Thanks

[ncis0520]

i got a question can i do this if i format my hdd and install it with snow leopard like format with nothing on it and then use snow leopard to reinstall mac?

[adamdeville]

Thank you very much! Was confused how to do it before.

[jhoumes]

Would this video work for me if I have a Macbook, and not a Macbook Pro? Thanks.

[COOLGUY19A]

@jhoumes yes

[jhoumes]

Would this video work for me if I have a Macbook, and not a Macbook Pro? Thanks.

[iTalkApple96]

@jhoumes yes i would work the same on the macbook

[ZachDRUMMOND]

Okay. I'm ready to do this, and I have backed everything up with Time Machine. After I complete the fresh install how do restore my data from the backup? Great video, and thanks.

[bachinsky24]

Will all my apps be deleted??

[ZA108257ZA]

yeah

[hovo327]

@bachinsky24 not if you back them up

[AbughazalaA]

@bachinsky24 Yes..Unless you do a time machine back up or any kind of back up...clean install means that it makes you computer brand new...internally

[mackacarlsson]

First, thanks for a great video! Was just wondering about one thing though.

If I do the TimeMachine carbon backup of my hard drive, then do the clean install of snow leopard as you show here in the tutorial... Then, if I use the TimeMachine backup, is there a possibility that my hard drive will be all slow and messy again?

Not sure if you get what I mean, but basically my MacBook have been slowing down a lot lately, so I wanna do a fresh start Should I use the TimeMachine to get my data back?

[iTalkApple96]

@mackacarlsson i would recommend just back everything you REALLY need onto an external storage drive because if you do a time machine backup it still might slow it down when you load the time machine backup after installation.

[intheair35]

hey man i have a question when you put the snow leopard disc in why do u have to restart ur computer and hit option key? does everryone do this ? tthsi is my first time doing this .

[AppleGenius0921]

You have to boot from the Snow Leopard disc, and clear your hard drive.

[intheair35]

what does that do tho ? im confused .. like do all people do this...

[kingdomprogroup]

hey great job it worked but why does my hard drive icon dont show on the desktop anymore

[edmoncu]

open the finder preferences and tick on the all the checkboxes under the 'Show these items on the desktop'

[andie323]

thanks! worked wonderfully!

[wesscoast]

Just 10/10 on this tutorial, thank you!

You told everyone to do a Clean Install, and this video is the perfect companion to that.

Thank you!

[TheMacHead71]

thank you so much you are a life saver i can now to boot camp yes

[preziam]

Maybe i don't understand properly so correct me if i am wrong. You backed up everything on time machine this includes all your settings, apps, files, etc. Then you Formatted and did a clean install of your OS again. ok at this point with the clean OS i understand it will be quicker but as soon as you run time machine and put all your settings, apps and files back on, won't it run just as slowly as before? Or am i missing something here? thanks!

[AppleGenius0921]

No, the OS will run smoother, rather than freeze and have problems. The data just takes more space on the hard drive.

[ElectronicOverdoser]

sweet !

[kabisan1villu]

can u do this with 1 mac and the snow leopard upgrade disk? not the full version!

[NO1MACFAN]

You know AppleGenius0921 you could have just pushed the "C" key on your keyboard and it would of automatically booted up from the disc.

[chessdude67]

Good video. Thanks for the lesson.

[joseisamacgeek]

I didn't know the disc had an entire operating system on it. I thought it just had file that replaced the old leopard files. Cool. Good video.

[josiah243]

little fun time lmao ?

[NMorales00]

Great tutorial! Thanks!

[harryclarkes]

5/5, Nice video!

[MGuniverse]

Cool stuff oliver :)

[63198mv]

hahahaha i just bought that today! its awesome!