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<blockquote data-quote="palko" data-source="post: 299801" data-attributes="member: 21511"><p><strong>external boot drive??</strong></p><p></p><p>I have an Ibook G4 running 10.3.9. Here what I want to do. I need to run a PC program. But I will never buy a PC. I want to run virtual PC 7 but I don't want any PC junk on my hard drive. I want to put the Virtual PC on a external hard drive that I have which is connected to the computer via the firewire port. Virtual PC will not load on the External hard drive because it does not contain the operating system. So I want to boot from the external hard drive but I'm having problems doing so. I used carbon copy cloner to copy my system folder to the external hard drive but I still can't boot from it. If I choose startup disk from the prefernces window I only get 2 choices. Mac HD or Network startup. I tried Network startup but it didn't work. I also tried holding down the option key at startup and that didn't work. Any suggestions would be great. There has to be a way to boot up from the external HD. Thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="palko, post: 299801, member: 21511"] [b]external boot drive??[/b] I have an Ibook G4 running 10.3.9. Here what I want to do. I need to run a PC program. But I will never buy a PC. I want to run virtual PC 7 but I don't want any PC junk on my hard drive. I want to put the Virtual PC on a external hard drive that I have which is connected to the computer via the firewire port. Virtual PC will not load on the External hard drive because it does not contain the operating system. So I want to boot from the external hard drive but I'm having problems doing so. I used carbon copy cloner to copy my system folder to the external hard drive but I still can't boot from it. If I choose startup disk from the prefernces window I only get 2 choices. Mac HD or Network startup. I tried Network startup but it didn't work. I also tried holding down the option key at startup and that didn't work. Any suggestions would be great. There has to be a way to boot up from the external HD. Thanks. [/QUOTE]
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