Can i migrate from leopard to lion

Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: mrmboy mrmboy More Less. Reply I have this question too 2 I have this question too Me too 2 Me too. All replies Drop Down menu. Loading page content. User profile for user: W. Richard Glendon W. Sep 16, PM in response to mrmboy In response to mrmboy I suspect that your issue is more complicated than what I'm about to say, but do you realize that, like Snow Leopard, Lion MacBook inch, W R Glendon.

Reply Helpful Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. Richard Glendon I have this issue also. Apple MacBook "Core 2 Duo" 2. So how can you install Lion over Leopard? There are three ways: the official way, the brute-force method, and the quick-but-techie way.

Whichever method you choose, you should—as with any OS installation—be sure to have an up-to-date, tested backup of your drive before you begin. As I mentioned above, the Lion installer will let you install Lion onto a bare drive when the installer itself is run under Snow Leopard or Lion. So as long as you have a good backup; a 4GB-or-larger thumb drive or external drive; and either access to a Mac running Snow Leopard or Lion, or an already downloaded copy of the Lion installer, you can perform a bit of installer razzle-dazzle.

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Improve this question. Richard Richard 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Jeremy Jeremy 1. Thanks, Jeremy. Richard I have clairified my post. It's clear that Apple has either told the press or otherwise indicated that a stand alone Lion installer will be sold.

It's possible Apple could make it so you show the installer a Snow Leopard media - i hope not, but it's certainly something that could be done. Best Answer. I've had never any problems with upgrades and never lost any files. You should make a backup — or better, make a bootable clone of your current hard drive: Buy an external hard drive Install Snow Leopard on the external drive.

Reboot into the clean external Snow Leopard drive, migrate over users and apps and run all updates. Run from that external to be sure it's a workable copy of your internal drive.