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Q: erase and restore from time machine

I have a Macbook, about 2 yrs old, SL 6.7.  Bought Lion upgrade, but it freezes.  Disk Utility says hd can't be repaired.  following its instruction, started up from OSX 6 DVD, went to disk utility from there to do repair.  That failed, with a message to format (and name?) the hard drive (the whole thing or only the MacBook icon below the whole thing?); default is Mac OS Extended (Journaled) which is presumably correct.  I'm afraid to do this, but I will.  I have time machine backup from yesterday (and days earlier and weeks, etc).

 

So, help: what are the incidental answers to incidental Qs above?  If I erase and re-install SN6, do I then have to do anything other than to restore from the backup drive?  The instructions have all kinds of issues with reinstalling software, registering accounts, login into networks, creating a Mac account probably mail too, printers, etc.

 

don't I have all of that stuff from my time machine restore?

 

What do I really have to do after I click on that irreversible erase button?

 

Thanks

Posted on Mar 13, 2012 11:17 PM

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