How to Reinstall Tiger

In the event of a hard drive crash, the Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger installation disc contains the original settings for your Apple computer, which will restore the computer to its factory settings. Fortunately, the restoration process allows you to archive previous data on your hard drive to minimize loss, and stores it in Finder on your restored hard drive for later access. Alternately, you can erase all data on the computer and start fresh to remove files that may have caused the error.

Things You'll Need

• Mac OS X 10.4 installation CD

Instructions

1. Insert the Mac OS X Tiger installation CD into your Apple computer's disc drive.

2. Double-click the CD icon on the desktop. Double-click "Install Mac OS X."

3. Click your default language and click "Continue." Click the Mac OS X disc in the destination window and click "Options."

4. Click "Archive and Install" and "Preserve Users and Network Settings" to save your hard drive's old settings and files, or click "Erase and Install" to remove all information.

5. Click "Continue" and "Install" to initialize the operating system installation. The computer automatically exits the installation window and restarts itself after the installation has finished.

6. Hold "Eject" on your keyboard to remove the disc after the computer restarts.

References

• Apple: Mac OS X 10.4 - Reinstalling Mac OS X