I have replaced the internal drive, but it is only seen sometimes. I'm actually running off my old drive connected externally. The new drive shows up in disk utility, but not as a boot-up option. We installed Mavericks on the new drive, and it seemed to go okay.
I suspect that there may be something else wrong internally, but was hoping that I could find a way to mark the new disk as bootable and save myself the cost and trip to the Apple store. Jeff On May 16, 2014, at 9:32 PM, Cameron Strife <came...@cameronstrife.com> wrote: > Hi. So, just so we're on the same page here, you replaced an internal > drive on a machine with one drive in it and you can only boot from it > some of the time? did the OSX install go okay? > > Cameron. > > > > > > > > On 5/16/14, Jeff Berwick <mailingli...@berwick.name> wrote: >> 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 <came...@cameronstrife.com> >> 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 <leejones...@sky.com> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
