Recently got a NewerTech 1TB FireWire drive from OWC for backup (my first NEW accessory purchase in years!) but figured I should partition my internal drive for El Capitan, Snow Leopard and Data as it is a 2008 iMac and will not be upgrading further in OS. On 2 gigs of ram it is already really slow on El Cap so I want to try it on Snow Leopard.
Backed up and tried the <option> restart to boot from the NewerTech drive and got the circle X symbol and it booted from the internal drive. Ran Disk Utility on the external drive, it made some minor fixes, same thing. I won't be able to try again till tomorrow night but what do I try next? The only other problem I've had with this drive is I cannot unmount it, when I want to disconnect it I have to shut down the computer or I get the warning that it is 'in use'. Not sure what is up with that either... Russell Courtenay Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
