Is there a way of making a drive bootable? I have just had my computer crap out on me, and I have replaced the drive. It shows up sometimes, but not always. I am unable to boot from it and, before I take the computer in for a serious look-over, I'd like to try this.
Thx, Jeff On May 16, 2014, at 9:24 PM, Cameron Strife <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. If you have a bootable drive, you can boot from it by going into > system preferences and selecting the drive in startup disk. Or, hold > down the option key when you hear the chime when restarting the > machine. This will give you a list of available devices to boot > from;internal hd, superdrive etc. If it is a bootable drive, you > should be able to select it from that list using the arrow keys then > hit enter. You may need to guess, or, just grab someone with some > working eyeballs to tell you how many times you need to arrow before > hitting enter. > > Hope that helps, > > Cameron. > > > > > > > On 5/16/14, Lee Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear List I wondered if anyone knows of a podcast or tutorial on how to >> create a bootable drive and then get the mac to boot from the external >> either a clone or set up from scratch. >> >> Many Thanks Lee >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
