You might be thinking, can I upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard for your Mac? Upgrading Mac OS 10.4 Tiger to Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard should be very easy as long as you have an Intel processor and at least one GB of RAM. If you have a PowerPC processor of any kind, then I’m afraid you’re out of luck, since the highest OS version PowerPC supports is Leopard. However, if you’re sure that you have an Intel processor, then the installation should be no problem. Your upgrade will work with a $29 Snow Leopard update CD, so there’s no need to get the full $169 Snow Leopard package.
When installing the new OS, you don’t have to do a clean install, but you should back up your files on an external hard drive. If you want to be extra careful, you can create a bootable hard drive image that can be used to your entire computer. Use Super Duper to create a bootable backup of your hard drive, just in case anything goes wrong during the installation. If you run into any major problems, such as the installer hanging or any error coming up, you may want to try doing a clean install of Snow Leopard. For this, make sure you have your files backed up! Either create a bootable image with Super Duper or backup your files manually, but you must backup your files in some manner. Below are the steps:
1. Boot from the Snow Leopard CD.
2. Click Install Mac OS X.
3. Click on Utilities and follow the instructions to restart your computer.
4. Click the Utilities again, and then click Disk Utility.
5. Click Erase a Volume to completely wipe the hard drive.
6. Quit out of Disk Utilities and proceed with the installation as usual.
Snow Leopard is ideally installed on top of an existing Leopard OS, so unforeseen problems might come up if you currently have Tiger. Use TalkLocal for free to find a professional computer technician to fix your OS problems!
