Can I install snow leopard, using my original disk that came with the computer, on my mac that has mavericks as its OS?

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Can I install snow leopard, using my original disk that came with the computer, on my mac that has mavericks as its OS?

I recently had a new hard drive installed in my macbook pro (2009 model). Previously I was running snow leopard and refused to upgrade as I knew it would cause my pro tools to become incompatible, however when I received my knew, hard drive due to my old one becoming corrupt, the apple techs had installed lion as the OS, I updated to mavericks on the off chance the incompatibility was just with Lion. However I my Snow leopard disk is also incompatible with the new OS, I would like to know if there is any way to install snow leopard onto my mac while it is using mavericks?

Posted on Jul 10, 2014 3:27 PM

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Niel

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Jul 10, 2014 3:29 PM in response to ludomac

Restart the computer with the disk in the drive and the C key held down and install Snow Leopard onto a blank partition or drive. If needed, use the Disk Utility to repartition or erase the internal one.

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Jul 10, 2014 4:20 PM in response to Niel

Must I repartition or erase the disk before resetting and installing snow leopard?

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Jul 10, 2014 4:23 PM in response to ludomac

Yes, unless you're willing to put it onto an external drive. You can't install Snow Leopard onto a volume which contains Mac OS X 10.7 or newer.

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Jul 10, 2014 4:24 PM in response to ludomac

Yes, you cannot install Snow Leopard on top of a later Mac OS X version. Best solution is a separate partition for Snow Leopard so you have both systems available for booting.

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