Mavericks constantly freezing

Grant

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So, regrettably, i installed mavericks on a MBP that had been performing flawlessly.
Now, there is constant freezing, i doubt the machine had been able to run for more than 30mins without freezing up totally.

I installed mavericks as a result of this:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/613274-Partition-crisis

Is there any way of reinstalling mavericks on the drive without losing all the data.
I really do not feel like moving 400G to another device etc etc etc.
Also, the ridiculous idea that the recovery partition can only do any repair via internet & a outlanish sized download is laughable.

I have the mavericks installer saved on different media.
If i copy it into "applications" and start it from there as you would when upgrading to mavericks, i am assuming user accounts / data etc will remain intact & not erased. Am I assuming right or wrong ?
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If you have a big enough flash drive, install mavericks to that drive and start MBP off the flash. If the performance is still sticky, then at least we know a few things. If not, you can use lion disk maker - now called Disk Maker X - to quickly create an installer on a USB. www.liondiskmaker.com and then do the archive and install Lord Flacko recommends.
 
next question:

how does creating some form of bootable media, then booting & installing from that, differ from copying the mavericks installer into the existing installation & starting it from there ?
 
In my experience, OSX is pretty crash resistant unless there are hardware issues, or you have a dodgy driver of some sort.
I've found 3rd party NTFS drivers to be quite buggy - lots of kernel crashes.

If its not drivers, then I'd suggest check the hardware. Look at console and check for whats in the logs.
As most issues are usually disk related, I'd do this -

Click the Spyglass icon.
Type console
Open console (enter)

Type in disk

See if any disk errors in there.

If you're not sure, copy/paste whats there here.
 
Clean install?

I suspect drivers then. Would have been better to check logs to see why it was crashing though, so you know to avoid whatever caused the problem in future.
 
grantza said:
next question:

how does creating some form of bootable media, then booting & installing from that, differ from copying the mavericks installer into the existing installation & starting it from there ?
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Completely clean install - ie, erase and install or even Disk Utility -> Partition then install to eliminate software errors of any sort.
 
yea, clean install

booted from an external drive
partitioned the internal drive
installed mavericks

no more problem !
 
GreGorGy said:
If you have a big enough flash drive, install mavericks to that drive and start MBP off the flash. If the performance is still sticky, then at least we know a few things. If not, you can use lion disk maker - now called Disk Maker X - to quickly create an installer on a USB. www.liondiskmaker.com and then do the archive and install Lord Flacko recommends.
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There is also createinstallmedia. No need for third party tools.
 
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