Did you verify that the disk was mounted before going into the Startup Disk System Preference? Also, I would expect this configuration to be slow. If I am not mistaken the Passport drives do not use Firewire or Lightning and so are restricted to USB speeds.
Best wishes, Jonathan On Nov 22, 2013, at 11:44 PM, Daniel C wrote: > Hi, > I have a Western Digital 2TB MyPassport USB external drive, and I’m trying to > install the latest OS 10 onto the drive. > I formatted the drive as Mac Extended, Journaled, and made 1 partition, also > formatted as Mac Extended, Journaled, and set in the options to use the G U I > table scheme. Clicked on apply and it reformatted and created the partition. > When I install the latest OSX from the Appstore, it acts as if it will > install to that disk, but after reboot, it’s suppose to take at least an hour > or so, and the setup assistant is suppose to come up. The computer, instead, > immediately boots into the login screen, as if the operating system had never > been installed on the internal drive, so it boots from the internal. > In startup disk, the external doesn’t show up as a disk to boot from. > Not sure what else I can do. Any help would be appreciated. > > -- > 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/groups/opt_out. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
