Q: How do I go from Mavericks back to Snow Leopard
I updated my late 2009 MacBook Pro to Mavericks as I thought the system efficiency upgrades the new OS tauted would be good, but alas my computer is super slow for ALL functions. I won't give details, because now after the fact, I'm learning others have had this problems. I don't have time to hope it will improve, I want to go straight back to Snow Leopard and will wait for Mavericks to have more updates, improvements and better reviews on speed.
Technical question on how to go back/ reinstall Snow Leopard?
First my stats:
I have 2 partitions on my MacBook Pro: 1. my usual use 400gb partition, which was on snow leopard and went up to Mavericks, and 2. 100gb "test" partition running 10.6.8.
I have an external backup hard drive with Time Machine backup of the 400GB partition.
There was an apple support article - http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14176 - that said to revert to previous OS you simply:
- Choose Apple menu > Restart. Once your Mac restarts (and the gray screen appears), hold down the Command (⌘) and R keys.
- Select “Restore from a Time Machine Backup,” then click Continue.
Is this indeed going to work for me? Or will it delete the 2 partitions?
Or do I pull out the Snow Leopard install disc and launch Disk Utility and erase the partition drive and install snow leopard that way?
Would like some confirmation on the best way to go before proceeding, but hoping to tackle this right away.
Thanks!
MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8), iPod Touch 3rd gen. 64GB(late 2009)
Posted on Mar 21, 2014 8:27 AM