Thanks for the response. Well, I checked and it is indeed GUID partition map. So any other ideas anybody?
Russell Courtenay Sent from my old iMac > On Jun 23, 2016, at 11:41 AM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> 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. -- 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.
