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cbervin - Oct 22, 2005 - 6:51 am
I NEED LOTS OF HELP!!! I have one of the first iBooks made back in '01, with a 20GB Hard Drive, which is now full up!! I have recently bought a Maxtor 300GB external HD and am wanting to be able to start up my computer from the external HD. How could I do this? I have also just bought an external DVD burner and hooked it up through the hard drive. Is this right or wrong?? Please help!!
philippe99 - Oct 22, 2005 - 8:17 am
Cb, welcome to macosx.com
(1) to boot on an external drive drive, this drive must be first formatted as HFS+; launch DiskUtility (Applications/Utilities), select the external drive and format it ('erase' tab)
You can boot on a Firewire external drive, not an USB one !
(2) to boot on an external; a valid system must be first install on it
So, either install a new fresh on it or clone (I say 'clone', not simple copy because simple copy does not respect permissions) the OS on you internal drive to the external drive.
You can use the "Restore" facility of DU or freeware/shareware/commercial like CarBonCopy for Tiger, SuperDuper or CloneX2
(3) to boot on an external drive, go to SystemPreferences / Startup, select the system on this drive and select 'restart'
(4) yes, you can hook the burner at the rear of the hard drive. But I would prefer to buy a hub, connect both the burner and the drive to the hub and connect the hub to the mac. Please, buy a self-powered hub, not a hub which takes power from the Mac's port
(5) In your case I will partition the external drive into several parts, one beinng of 20GB to receive the exact clone of your internal drive. Well, a secure backup indeed !
(6) beside the cloning/booting on an external drive, may I suggest you to move ypour big files (iTunes music, iPhoto library, movies, ...) to one the external drive partition to free space on your external drive
(7) about your external burner; if not recognized by the system, try the freeware patchburn (www.patchburn.de) which modify some system files to force the burner to be recognized
Regards
Philippe
(1) to boot on an external drive drive, this drive must be first formatted as HFS+; launch DiskUtility (Applications/Utilities), select the external drive and format it ('erase' tab)
You can boot on a Firewire external drive, not an USB one !
(2) to boot on an external; a valid system must be first install on it
So, either install a new fresh on it or clone (I say 'clone', not simple copy because simple copy does not respect permissions) the OS on you internal drive to the external drive.
You can use the "Restore" facility of DU or freeware/shareware/commercial like CarBonCopy for Tiger, SuperDuper or CloneX2
(3) to boot on an external drive, go to SystemPreferences / Startup, select the system on this drive and select 'restart'
(4) yes, you can hook the burner at the rear of the hard drive. But I would prefer to buy a hub, connect both the burner and the drive to the hub and connect the hub to the mac. Please, buy a self-powered hub, not a hub which takes power from the Mac's port
(5) In your case I will partition the external drive into several parts, one beinng of 20GB to receive the exact clone of your internal drive. Well, a secure backup indeed !
(6) beside the cloning/booting on an external drive, may I suggest you to move ypour big files (iTunes music, iPhoto library, movies, ...) to one the external drive partition to free space on your external drive
(7) about your external burner; if not recognized by the system, try the freeware patchburn (www.patchburn.de) which modify some system files to force the burner to be recognized
Regards
Philippe
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