Re: Can't boot from external firewire drive

2005-06-02 Thread P. Turtle-Bear Guillermo
On Jun 2, 2005, at 1:18 PM, david wrote: On Jun 2, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Harry Corsover wrote: In the meantime, I'll offer some advice I wish I had before buying these drives: If you need an external drive to be bootable, make sure that you get that verified before you make the purchase! A f

Re: Can't boot from external firewire drive

2005-06-02 Thread david
On Jun 2, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Harry Corsover wrote: In the meantime, I'll offer some advice I wish I had before buying these drives: If you need an external drive to be bootable, make sure that you get that verified before you make the purchase! A firewire drive that isn't bootable - that'

Re: Can't boot from external firewire drive

2005-06-02 Thread Harry Corsover
On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:30 PM, Jason wrote: hmm, well, my firewire drive works ok, i can boot from it, but i installed the OS direct to it, and then added all my files and settings... when i back up, i delete, then use migration to get new data from the main drive I just found out (from IOGe

Re: Can't boot from external firewire drive

2005-06-01 Thread Jason
the migration assistant in Tiger, and I think also on late versions of panther, will move all your settings, files, and preferences from one HD with OSX to another, effectively duplicating your machine and since carbon copy cloner and tiger dont play yet, it was a lifesaver when i sent

Re: Can't boot from external firewire drive

2005-06-01 Thread Harry Corsover
On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:30 PM, Jason wrote: hmm, well, my firewire drive works ok, i can boot from it, but i installed the OS direct to it, and then added all my files and settings... when i back up, i delete, then use migration to get new data from the main drive I tried a direct install of