Re: Trouble booting from external drive

2016-08-24 Thread 375GTB .
CCC clones are bootable IF the original is bootable CCC will tell you it will be bootable No need to check anything It CANNOT make the unbootable, bootable. Don't give false hope.. THIS since at least "Classic" OS-9, c. 2000 Thru OS-X 10.9 Mavericks On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Bruce

Re: Trouble booting from external drive

2016-06-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
> On Jun 24, 2016, at 12:30 AM, GMail Valter Psicof > wrote: > > Which software did you use for cloning? > I seem to remember there's something that needs to be copied (or fixed) for > a cloned OSX to be bootable; hence not all clones are born equal. > Using Carbon Copy Cloner I always had succ

Re: Trouble booting from external drive

2016-06-24 Thread 375GTB .
My late 2009 Mac Mini 2.53Ghz. works FINE with original 4GB RAM and 10.9 Mavericks. As it did (and DOES) with 10.6 Snow Leopard..From LaCie d2 Quadra with FireWire 800 320GB WD 7200 rpm HDD x2...one IDE and one SATA.. The slow internal 5400 rpm 320GB 2.5" drive is partitioned to be the Time Mach

Re: Trouble booting from external drive

2016-06-24 Thread 375GTB .
I like the older Carbon Copy Cloner, from OWC... It's cloned everything from Classic OS-9.2.2 to OS-10.9, here. 1999 PowerBook G3/400 to the Mac Mini... The newer CCC you pay for has more bells and whistles Not my cuppa On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 7:34 AM, 375GTB . wrote: > My late 200

Re: Trouble booting from external drive

2016-06-24 Thread GMail Valter Psicof
Il giorno 24/06/16 08.59, "Russell Courtenay" ha scritto: > The external drive is a clone of the internal drive, I don't think I formatted > it, don't remember... One partition. Well, it sounds unlikely, but if it's factory formatted, maybe there's some quirk that gets in the way; a GUID hard dri

Re: Trouble booting from external drive

2016-06-23 Thread Russell Courtenay
The external drive is a clone of the internal drive, I don't think I formatted it, don't remember... One partition. Russell Courtenay Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 24, 2016, at 12:44 AM, GMail Valter Psicof > wrote: > > Il giorno 24/06/16 07.09, "Russell Courtenay" ha scritto: > >> Thanks fo

Re: Trouble booting from external drive

2016-06-23 Thread GMail Valter Psicof
Il giorno 24/06/16 07.09, "Russell Courtenay" ha scritto: > Thanks for the response. Well, I checked and it is indeed GUID partition map. > So any other ideas anybody? I'd say you could try to reformat the drive anyway. Maybe there's some quirk (unless you already formatted it yourself in the fir

Re: Trouble booting from external drive

2016-06-23 Thread Russell Courtenay
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 > wrote: > > >> On Jun 22, 2016, at 10:01 PM, Russell Courtenay >> wrote: >> >> Backed up and tr

Re: Trouble booting from external drive

2016-06-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
> On Jun 22, 2016, at 10:01 PM, Russell Courtenay > wrote: > > Backed up and tried the 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

Trouble booting from external drive

2016-06-22 Thread Russell Courtenay
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 s