MacBook Air :: Booting From External Drives - MBA 2012?
Jun 19, 2012
I have a brand new 13" MBA which I'm working on building an image to use for deployment using Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.5. For whatever reason, I can't boot the new 2012 MBA from an external LaCie FW800 or Thunderbolt 1TB Little Big Disk that is running either 10.7.2 or 10.7.4. As soon as I select the drive to boot from when holding the Options key or from selecting the partition from Startup Disk in System Preferences, I get the do not enter icon(circle with the diagonal slash). I tried both plugged in through a Cinema Display and plugging the Thunderbolt drive directly to the laptop. I confirmed both LaCie drives boot properly on an iMac and the last gen MBP/MBA.Â
Laptop Specs:
13"
1.8GHz Dual-core i5
8GB
128 SSD
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Jun 14, 2012
I received my shiny new 13" macbook pro today and bought a mini displayport to vga connector from a local store. Unofrtunately my external display of choice shows some strange images when connected. It shows the desktop but divided into several shifted. Can't really describe it but i would say the screen is 1000 pixels wide it show them in the following order:-
100;300-600;800-1000;800-1000;800-1000;Â
I installed the last update and i'm going to try it with another display tomorrorw. My old 2007 Macbook made no problems with the display when connected over VGA.Â
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, iOS 5.1.1
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Mac Pro Quad 2.6, Mac OS X (10.6.5), Mac Classic II , PB 180C , ..., iMac G5
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I have a few external drives for my Macbook Pro. One of the drives is an Iomega MaxMini with USB ports on the back to add drives.
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MacBook (13-inch Late 2006), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Managing a MBP with SSD and external drives for data?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.4/2.2 GHz), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBook
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MacBook Pro with Retina display
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LaCie Rugged External Hard Drives, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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iCal, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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when I go to reformat my external hard drive in disk utility, I see my external hard drive to the left, and there's a "sub" hard drive as a child of the external hd listed uppermost. just wandering which one of the two do i select before going to Erase>Windows NT filesystem (NTFS-3G)>erase? Do I select the uppermost drive and erase that or the lower one? or both
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Apr 28, 2010
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3), using 3rd gen airport extreme
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