So I want to restart my macbook pro early 2011 back to original factory setting i have the snow leopard disk but when i click on it to install it says i cant because i installed Lion on it.
the part i need help in is that i purchased Lion from the app store so I dont have to the disk its self to just restart it from there so I was wondering how am I going to be able to restart my laptop bak to originial factory settings?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Back up your data first.
Try booting from your Snow Leopard DVD by restarting and holding down the C key. Once booted from the SL DVD, you can use Disk Utilities to erase your Macintosh HD and then reinstall Snow Leopard.
Back up your data first.
Try booting from your Snow Leopard DVD by restarting and holding down the C key. Once booted from the SL DVD, you can use Disk Utilities to erase your Macintosh HD and then reinstall Snow Leopard.
"you can use Disk Utilities to erase your Macintosh HD and then reinstall Snow Leopard." This is the part I need help with how can i clear my hd using disk utilities
Open Disk Utilities, click on your volume (Macintosh HD); then click the Erase tab and the Erase button in the lower right of your screen. After the erase finishes, you can close Disk Utilities and select the option to reinstall Snow Leopard from the OS X Utilities menu.
My Erase button below is greyed out because I'm booted into my Macintosh HD. Yours won't be when you're booted into your Snow Leopard DVD.
this is what am staring at what next
You can't erase your hard drive while booted into it.
You need to keep your SL DVD in the CD/DVD drive, reboot your system and when the screen goes black press/hold the C key to boot from your Snow Leopard DVD. Then you can do Disk Utilities.
So am in the part where you have to reinstall snow leopard my hard drive is cleared but its not allowing me to reinstall it it says "Mac OS X cannot start up from this disk."
I don't know where you're at .. at the moment. If you booted from your Snow Leopard DVD and you are still on your SL DVD, there should be an option to install SL or OS X, I don't remember. It sounds like you're trying to reboot into your hard drive instead of staying in the Snow Leopard DVD to reinstall SL.
Am at the screen where it says
Install Mac OS X
If you're booted into the SL DVD and are at the selection to install SL, then go ahead and install it.
If you're still having issues, you should set up an appointment at an Apple Store Genuis Bar and take your SL DVD and Mac in and have them help you. I'm not sure what else I can do for you at this point.
help restore back to original settings
