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.
> 
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