> On Jun 22, 2016, at 10:01 PM, Russell Courtenay <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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?
Check the Disk partition scheme on the OWC drive. I’ll lay odds its FAT32 not GUID. To fix this you have to go into Disk utility, select the drive (not the volume) and click on the Partition tab. Select 1 partition and select GUID as partition type. Also, updating the RAM in that iMac is easy and IIRC they’ll take up to 8 or 16gb. 2GB is marginal even for Snow Leopard. with 4 or 8 gb that iMac will run a LOT better. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- 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.
