MacBook Air :: How To Install External DVD - RW
Apr 15, 2012I owned a MacBook Air 11" which do not have a built-in DVD-RW. I bought a ASUS DVD-RW but I can't install it.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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MacBook Pro :: Remove Hard Drive - Install In External Enclosure And Install OS X?
Jan 5, 2011My MBP was recently squished in a motorcycle accident and its hard drive and superdrive were destroyed. Is it possible to buy a new hard drive, put it in an external USB 2.0 enclosure, then install OS X on it using the discs that came with my destroyed MBP in a different Mac, then put the hard drive into the squished computer and have it use that hard drive as its startup disk? The motherboard on the squished computer is fine, I just can't install OS X on it because it has a broken superdrive.
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I searched around, and could only find one other similar thread that just ended with the author putting it in clamshell and having it work fine. When I boot to the install and close the screen, I just get a grey box on my external display with a black bar on either side of it. I can't seem to find any other resources, so I'm not entirely sure what to do at this point. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
MacBook Pro :: OS X Install From External DVD?
Sep 4, 2010I am in the worst possible situation here. My early 2008 MBP's superdrive decided to not read DVDs and I hence cannot boot from the Snow Leopard DVD. In addition to that, Onyx and Disk Utility say that I need to format my HD (I mucked around with partitions while kicking a Linux distro out of my computer). So, can the MBP boot from an external USB DVD drive? Can anyone recommend a cheap drive for me?
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Sep 22, 2010Here's the setup:
Currently my MBP17 (alu) has two HD's installed but they're not RAIDed, the other unit is simply there are added storage. For many years I've never had the need to install Windows until now and since there's no internal optical drive I've been installing everything from the external Lacie Blu-Ray drive and it's been fine; up until now - but maybe it's because I've not tried it before?
Problem:
Anyway... Does anyone know would it be possible to install Windows from a external optical drive connected via Firewire? Because whenever I try, all I get a flashing icons (the usual grey apple logo then a no access mark followed by a folder with a question mark in a folder).
What I do:
1. Start bootcamp, select Install Windows.
2. System restarts
3. Press and hold option key on boot up.
4. then select the Windows DVD
After, the system shows flashing icons.
a. grey apple logo
b. circle with a line through it
c. grey folder with a question mark.
d. (repeat from a)
MacBook Pro :: Run/install Games Onto An External HDD?
Jun 21, 2012I would like to either install Windows on another partition on my 256GB SSD on the new rMBP and run games off an external, or install Windows on an external and games as well. What would be the most efficient (price wise) way to do this without having to sacrifice speed? I was thinking I could use an external thunderbolt hard drive, but it seems like they are all over $300 and over 1TB. I would only really need around 500GB with preferably 7200RPM speeds. Would USB 3.0 be fast enough or would I need to use thunderbolt? I prefer not to have to install 30GB games on the Windows partition on a small 256GB SSD, though I guess I could uninstall and reinstall them as I need (but does this wear down the SSD write speeds over time?) I couldn't get myself to pay another $600 to get a 512GB SSD logic board on the rMBP.
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Sep 11, 2014I am trying to install osx maverick on an external ssd before i phsically put it into my macbook. I ran the installer and selected the external ssd and it seemed to go alright until my computer restarted. Then when i hold option it shows my current hard drive but its called install osx and recovery. my computer no longer will boot up like normal. I dont know whats going on,
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1
MacBook Air :: Install Boot Camp Without External Superdrive?
Feb 21, 2008I think this has been talked before but I can't find any good answers.
I'm trying to install Windows XP Professional (limited space, otherwise I'd use vista.. boo @ vista. haha) as a boot camp partition. Problem, I didn't fork out the $99 external superdrive. The good news, I did borrow a external DVD drive from my friend. I plug it in, it boots, but it gets a blue screen saying "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_DEVICE" or something along that line. Ok, no luck there.
I tried using the Parallels method. I created an ISO image, booted from it, installed XP into the Boot Camp Partition through Parallels, but once the transfer's finished, it tries to boot off the Hard Drive and it just hangs. (Total install isn't even completed.)
MacBook Pro :: External Moniter - How To Install Snow Leopard
Dec 29, 2009I have tried to install it, but when I restart, all I see is a purple galactic background of some kind and nothing else. This is the background it displays to install Snow Leopard, and the display is hidden somewhere offscreen, perhaps even fixed to it (which would make it impossible to drag).
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Intel Mac :: Install WD External Hard Drive And Use It With Macbook Pro
Jun 27, 2012After connecting my WD hard drive with my Macbook pro, I am able to view all what I have in my WD but I cant move any file from the Mac to the WD
I need to move my Iphoto library and some staff from my desktop
Info:Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
MacBook :: How To Install External DVD Drive To Replace Broken Internal One
Jun 17, 2012My old macbook has a broken optical drive inside it. The one that came with it has quit working and the genius at the genius bar said it needed to be replaced. The genius said to get an external one online so I bought the Amazon basics external dvd drive. How to install it and get it to work.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
OS X :: How To Install 10.5 On An External Drive?
Mar 6, 2008I'm wanting to install 10.5 on an external drive, and I want to be able to plug that external drive into any number of Macs and boot from it. Basically I'm a freelancer and I want to be able to go in to any studio and have all my shit set up the way I want it rather than fannying around trying to figure out how somebody else has set up the Mac (you wouldn't believe how some of the machines are set up).
In theory it should work, but I'm a little worried that the Mac OS X installer will install a hardware specific installation (specific to the host Mac that I perform the installation on). So if I use a MacBook Pro to install OS X on the external drive, and I consequently use it to boot a Mac Pro, will it cause problems because the installation will only have the drivers for the MBP?
It's a retail version of Leopard by the way...
OS X :: Can Install OS X From External Drive
Dec 24, 2008I was wondering if it is possible to install OS X from an external USB hard drive. Like copying an image from my OS X DVD to my Mac, then copying the file to my external drive and then boot from that disc image on my other Mac.
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Jan 28, 2009I've searched google but cant find an answer to my question.
I have an external HD, partitioned into 2 volumes, where 1 volume is empty and I want to install Tiger onto this volume.
Trouble is when I boot into the install CD and try to install on this volume it says that it 'cannot install on this volume.Mac OS cannot boot into this volume.'
I found on google that when partitioning the whole ext. HD, there is an option about a GUID or something which allows the drive be bootable.
This would be useful but it would wipe my whole drive, including the other volume.
I do not want to do a clone of my int. HD, and SuperDuper! it onto the ext. HD.
OS X :: Install OSX On External Hard Drive For PC
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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