 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Mac Forum / General / Hardware / September 2007Booting from FW drives and new iMac?
I have a FW 400 external hard drive from OWC connected to a new aluminum iMac. Everything works fine, but the iMac won't boot from the external drive. Any solutions? > I have a FW 400 external hard drive from OWC connected to a new aluminum > iMac. Everything works fine, but the iMac won't boot from the external > drive. Any solutions? Back up the hard drive if you need the data on it, then reinstall OS X from the DVD that came with your iMac. > I have a FW 400 external hard drive from OWC connected to a new aluminum > iMac. Everything works fine, but the iMac won't boot from the external > drive. Any solutions? How is the external drive partitioned and formatted? If the iMac is a _new_ one, it presumably must be an Intel iMac, which means that you should use the GUID partition method to partition it. You're also going to need to have it formatted HFS+. You can set this up using Disk Utility.  Signatureemail to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com. > I have a FW 400 external hard drive from OWC connected to a new aluminum > iMac. Everything works fine, but the iMac won't boot from the external > drive. Any solutions? I have a 24-inch 2.4 GHz iMac and it will boot from a generic firewire 400 external drive that I had backup with SuperDuper. You were not very specific on what was used to create the OS on the OWC drive and that may be your problem. Unless it has been 'blessed' as a boot drive, it will not start you iMac. |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.