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- Mac Pro, 8GB, 3 750GB HDs, 250GB HD, two 22" monitors, 1 iMac, 1 13" Macbook Pro, AppleTv, 2 iPhones
I have a 2007 Mac Pro that came with a 250GB hard drive at the time. I installed BootCamp on the drive split 50/50 between Windows and OS X (sorry, I was stupid at the time). At some point I added a 750GB drive and moved OS X over to the larger drive. Since then, I added two more 750GB hard drives.
Tonight, I attempted to replace the original 250GB hard drive with a 2TB drive and discovered that when I moved OS X to the second drive several years ago, that the boot information did not go with it; so the original 250GB drive is actually the boot drive, while the second drive (the 750GB) has OS X. This leaves me unable to remove the original drive if I still want to boot the computer.
Is there an easy way to make the drive that contains OS X bootable so I can permanently replace the smaller drive? Unfortunately, reinstalling OS X is not really an option for me, as I would be forced to reinstall so much that I would lose a great deal of time.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
Michael
Tonight, I attempted to replace the original 250GB hard drive with a 2TB drive and discovered that when I moved OS X to the second drive several years ago, that the boot information did not go with it; so the original 250GB drive is actually the boot drive, while the second drive (the 750GB) has OS X. This leaves me unable to remove the original drive if I still want to boot the computer.
Is there an easy way to make the drive that contains OS X bootable so I can permanently replace the smaller drive? Unfortunately, reinstalling OS X is not really an option for me, as I would be forced to reinstall so much that I would lose a great deal of time.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
Michael