I have an Intel iMac running 10.7.4. I would like to install Mac OS X 10.6.8 on an external HD.How would I go about doing that.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Intel iMac 4GB RAM 500GB Hard Disk
I attempted to install a driver for my external hard drive. It was apparently the wrong thing to do, I keep getting pop ups that it's not supported. I removed the driver but it's still giving me pop ups!
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In other words... I have moved my music library to the external hard drive, as per an earlier thread I read here on the forums. It worked like quite well. Now that it is working perfectly, I am having a hard time leaving well enough alone. It is never a good idea for me to think too much...Can itunes be installed and run on/from an external hard drive? If so, how?
View 15 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to install a copy of Windows XP on my external hard drive. I don't have a working cd drive though on my macbook so I can't use a cd. Is there any way to install to the external without a cd? If not is there any way to install it with a windows pc and have it work on my mac?
View 15 Replies View Relatedhas anyone installed osx onto a external usb harddrive using a macbook air?
was wondering what the performance was like afterwards?
would help to get around internal small hd space....be good when using at home and also using external monitor....
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I've acquired a rev A bondi blue iMac G3 (the one in my sig... which doesn't have fire wire). It has a 4GB drive in it that has Panther on it and everything is great... but the CD drive is broken. In that I paid $15 for the computer, and that its over a decade old, I really don't want to put money in to getting a new drive.
I do, however, want to upgrade the hard drive from 4GB to 80GB. I have a spare IDE drive, and a firewire case. Can I plug the hard drive into my iMac G4 and re-install panther on to it? Then just take the 80Gig drive out of the case and install it into the iMac?
I just replaced the hardrive in one of my macbooks. i am trying to load snow leopard on it and it just skips through the installation and says Intallion failed?
anyone have any thoughts. i am installng it from an external harddrive!
I have a computer running Windows Vista, and I want to install Mac OS X Leopard on a 500GB external USB hard drive. I have seen many tutorials on how to do this on a Mac, but not on a PC.
View 5 Replies View Relatednice to be a part of macrumors.
just here to ask one simple question:
i put leopard's OS X install dvd on my western digital passort 250gb external hard drive. i plugged it into my ibook, recognized it as a OS X install dvd. i could click it and it can give me the option to restart my computer in order for the installation to begin. the thing is, it stops me and tells me to boot from the installation CD instead.
i'm just doing a little experimentation, but is it true that PowerPCs need Firewire external HD's in order to startup from it?
i also tried using 'startup disk' to restart from the external hd. no luck, it gives me that error sound (the sound in system prefs. says it's called 'funk').
but i just want to know how else i can install leopard. my optical drive is totally messed up, and my iBook unexpectedly kernel panics at the wrong moments: usually when i install 10.4.11 from the software update or when i restart the computer and it's unable to book from the grey screen or the blue screen or even when it shows the desktop then suddenly kernels.
So I'm in a unique situation. I'm upgrading my Tiger Macbook that has a broken screen (only top 1/3rd is visible) to Leopard. The problem is, the Leopard installer runs on the primary display so I can't see the installer properly. I've tried blind clicking to no avail. I was wondering if there is anyway to use the Leopard installer with an external screen? I've searched the internet to no avail and was wondering if I could get a definitive answer for this problem. I've just ordered a new screen for the Macbook and am going to try to DIY replace it.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI just thought I'd mention this for anyone who is thinking of using a Western Digital 1TB drive on your PPC Mac running 10.4. The MyBook Essential 1 TB external USB 2.0 drive is not compatible* out of the box with my Mac PPC G5 computer. If I plug it in, I get a message that the drive is not readable and an offer to initialize it. However when trying to partition the drive using Apple's Disk Utility (in 10.4), I get formatting error: Input/output error.
The solution is to download the WD Macintosh + Turbo Drive utility from Western Digital and install it on your PPC Mac. As previously mentioned, I have a G5, so while I assume this should work for any PPC Mac running 10.4.11, I don't know for sure. If you have an intel Mac there should be no issues with this drive requiring the utility to be installed. This hard drive worked as it should when it was first plugged into the MBP.
I just want to install EWQL Symphonic Orchestras on my 2TB hard drive, but it does not allow me to. I can only install it on my internal mac HD. What can I do to allow the installation on the external HD?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am currently running Lion on my Mac Mini, I have an external drive onto which I want to install Snow Leopard so that i can play some older Mac games I have which do not work under Lion. I insert the Snow Leopard CD, restart the Mac whilst holding down the option key and boot from the Snow Leopard CD, hoping to then select the external HD for Snow Leopard installation. The Mac starts up, I can hear the Snow Leopard CD being accessed, however, after about a minute or so, a screen comes up saying that I have to shut down the Mac by holding the power button, so obviously the Mac will not continue to boot from the Snow Leopard CD. Is this because I am running Lion on the Mac or is there a problem with the Snow Leopard CD. If it is because the Mac is running on Lion, how can I install Snow Leopard to the external HD. I am using the Newer Technology USB 3 Universal Drive Adapter to connect the external HD to my Mac, the Mac sees the external HD no probs and I can format the external HD etc., so that side seems to be OK.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2.4GHZ, 8G RAM, OWC 6G 480G SSD
I just got a mac pro last week. The day i got it i installed a 1TB WD sate drive in bay 2....No problems it works great.....However, today i picked up 2 more 1 TB WD drives and attempted to install into slots 3 and 4... PROBLEM!The drives are showing up as external/firewire drives- not internal drivesCan anyone help with what i should do?Oh, and when i restart, they come up uninitialized.- But the problem anyway is that they need to be seen as internal
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to install Snow Leopard from a disc image on an external drive?
View 7 Replies View Relatedim trying to install Mac OS X 10.5 on to an external drive. I want to run Leopard off of an External Hard Drive which will connect via Firewire of USB 2.0. I have booted up using the install DVD that i bought a couple years ago to upgrade from Tiger. However each time i install i get an error saying that it cannot be installed. It allows me to start the install and is almost complete before i get this error. I have it partitioned using the Apple Partition Map so i can boot up on a PowerPC computer.
What should i do to install 10.5 on an external drive?
For the moment I have my OS back up (10.3.9 )cloned to an ext FW HD. I have a 10.4 install or unpgrade disc (not sure which, nor if the disc is any good and would prefer not to risk screwing up my int.HD). Could I install Tiger directly to my ext.HD, thus being able to use the two systems depending on where I boot from. (if the install works?) Asking this because I'm not sure if I have enough free space on my Int HD (7GB) to do an Install and Archive, where as on my Ext HD I have about 11GB free space on the partition. Then if it all works could I CCC it back to my Int.HD?
View 13 Replies View RelatedJust wondering if it's possible to install games (like Diablo III) to an external drive so it doesn't take up any precious GBs on my MacBook Air.
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MacBook Air (13-INCH, MID 2011), Mac OS X (10.6.5)
I want to install Lion on my iMac. It is currently running version 10.6.8. I have 3 external hard drives connected to the iMac. Should I disconnect them before installing Lion?
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iPad 2, iOS 5
I have had a MacMini for about 2 months now, and use brand new Creative brand speakers to plug into it. Everything has worked fine, but this morning as I went onto a band's MySpace page I was informed that the music could not be played without installing a newer version of Adobe Flash Player. So I clicked the link and went through the installation and sure enough now the MySpace music player came up. Unfortunately, I noticed there was no sound coming out of my speakers. First, I checked each plug, but still no sound. Second, I reinstalled Adobe Flash Player for Mac (from the Adobe website), but it still didn't work. Third, I took the audio plug connecting my speakers and MacMini out and noticed that the music was playing through my MacMini, but when I plugged it back in I noticed that it wasn't coming through my external speakers. Dumbfounded, I plugged my iPod in through the Aux In on my speakers and noticed it worked perfectly fine. Finally, I switched audio cables connecting my MacMini and my Creative brand speakers and it still didn't work!What is going on here?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an 17" iMac intel that had 10.4.11 installed on it. I am trying to install 10.5.4. I got to the Language screen , selected English.
Hit continue. A window popped up stating, "This software cannot be installed on this computer." With OK and Restart Buttons. Using Disk Utility, I Erace the hard drive ran Verfy and Repair on the Hard drive. Tried again. Same Message.
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iMac 17-inch intel, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
i was wondering if it is possible to install snow leopard without a superdrive or the remote disc utility, but from an external hard disk drive which the snow leopard files have been put on.i have already googled to the end of the world. no success so far.
View 12 Replies View RelatedFrom what I've read, Leopard is the first Apples first truly Universal OS, thus the basis for this question.
The OS is Leopard Server, the Mac(s) are a dual 500MHz Powermac G4, and a 2.0 Core Duo Macbook Pro.
The OS does not want to install on the Powermac, it comes back with issues no matter what I do.
So, could I install Leopard Server on my Powermac by putting it into Target Disk Mode and installing it via my MBP?
I tried installing different version of xcode to install in my iMAC , but I am getting the same kind of error.First I tried installing xcode from the DVD I got the error.Second I tried installing the xcode_4.2_for_snow_leopard.dmg ( which is downloaded from the net) and got the same error Third I tried installing the xcode_4_and_ios_sdk_4.3__final.dmg ( which is downloaded from the net) and got the same error.
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.0.1
I've updated to 10.7.3 - and now I can't go to e.g. adobe.com and adobe.dk.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Can't access external headphone or external speakers. Choice disappeared on output, still there for input.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
how to get it setup nicely. [URL:..] So first thing, I need to physically install the drive. Is there a good tutorial for a macbook pro 4,1 (old style aluminum) that shows you how to swap the hard drives? I'd like to just mirror the contents of my internal drive, and I've got an external 2.5 inch enclosure to help me. So, do I take out my current drive and put that in the enclosure and startup and mirror to the SSD (with super duper?)? Or is there a better way. Also does it need any special drivers or setting up? And finally are there any tips on perfomance tuning and optimizations I can make.
View 15 Replies View RelatedI purchased Adobe Photoshop 6.0 for mac off ebay, but when I try to install it I get a message that says the old style install is not supported. I am using an iMac Intel with Lion installed.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I was installing leopard and cannot get mac to reboot
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iMac
As far as I'm aware the hardware is not an issue it's the firware lacking the drivers to be able to install Snow Leopard. I've tried 10.6, 10.6.3 & 10.6.7 to no avail.
I've also tried formatting the drive and booting the dmg's like that also to no avail, now backing up to lion via time machine.
Years of using windows being easily configurable and moving to mac 4 months ago finding that it quite restrictive but probably why its safer as an OS is frustrating.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
