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Boot from partition?
I need to buy a new backup drive. For some reason my Maxtor is not bootable all of a sudden. On my most recent backup, Superduper copied everything over but the drive will not boot even though it has booted before. (I got the following message: "The disk you inserted was not readable by the computer.")
I was looking at a 500 gig hard drive today for a good price. Can I partition that drive and make a bootable drive on it or is it preferred to boot from a non-partitioned (and therefore smaller) drive? Thanks for your help. Hope I am posting this newb question in the right place. -- iMac intel. brand new Mac user. |
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Partitions are no problem. I suggest a number of brands in my User's Guide -- readily available ones include the Maxtor OneTouch III, Western Digital MyBook Pro and LaCie (non-Porsche). Get a FireWire drive!
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I am about to order this one:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1134698030541 Will it be bootable? Ya think? Thanks in advance! |
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As long as you partition it appropriately for your Mac (GUID for Intel, APM for Power PC), yes.
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Thanks Dave!
p.s. The whole idea of getting me logged-into the forum was so I would not bother you with emails! I guess you da man! |
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Yep. All roads seem to lead to me.
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OK, so I'm going blind. I went through the Users Guide and can't find the list of recommended drives. Page #?
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