How can I restart my MacBook after where the disc?

Hello

I have an old MacBook (2008 running 10.8.5) - which became slow despite doing so much relics of different things to try to solve it. I came to the conclusion, the needs of disk wiping clean and all reloading.

Although he is no longer my main machine, I want to keep it on to run my accounts.

I had a Time Machine backup. I backed up all my documents and files that I might need for double safety.

I am now ready to erase the disc. BUT I did not do this for years. I assume that the best way is to use disk utility?

After that I wiped the disk, how best to recover the OS on my laptop? Can I copy it over an external hard drive? What I must start the mac from the external hard drive and it will allow me to do this is that I simply copied the "System" folder on the hard drive external?

Any advice gratefully received.

Jennie

1. you have to start over from another volume, including the recovery partition. If your backup Time Machine was made 10.8 or more recent, he going to have a recovery partition, but can otherwise be used as a startup disk.

2. If you used the recovery from a Time Machine backup partition, restore the backup of it. If you used a different recovery partition or an installation DVD, reinstalling the OS or restore your backup. If clone you your system on an external drive, the clone back; simply drag - copy the system folder or anything else will not work.

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