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<blockquote data-quote="Franco2Mac" data-source="post: 1221333" data-attributes="member: 121374"><p>Youse guys are losing me. Here's my situation, I have 3 external hard drives. One is dedicated to Time machine - 750gb, but the other 2 have plenty of space. (one is a 2 terrabyte the other is a 1 Tb external.) All three are daisey chained via the FireWire cables off the back of the iMac.</p><p></p><p>So isn't there a way to put an OS on some external drive and hold some keyboard combination that boots the system up instead of start up from the internal drive?</p><p></p><p>Do I need to purchase some software to accomplish this (I have a 21.5 Core 3i iMac, newly purchased)</p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks</p><p></p><p>As a side note:</p><p>My 7 year old Motorola based iMac gave up the ghost - toasted Logic board, and I purchased a refurbished iMac. I was worried about being able to restore the new machine with TimeMachine. Worries that were totally unfounded as it turns out. I just plugged in the firewire external drives, selected the Migration Assistant and answered the questions about what I wanted transfered, and within a few minutes all was right with the world again. I have found that some of the web site passwords needed to be re-entered, but everything else (especially some oldish applications all worked fine.) </p><p></p><p>Apart from the boot question am I missing something here?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>KKKKFL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Franco2Mac, post: 1221333, member: 121374"] Youse guys are losing me. Here's my situation, I have 3 external hard drives. One is dedicated to Time machine - 750gb, but the other 2 have plenty of space. (one is a 2 terrabyte the other is a 1 Tb external.) All three are daisey chained via the FireWire cables off the back of the iMac. So isn't there a way to put an OS on some external drive and hold some keyboard combination that boots the system up instead of start up from the internal drive? Do I need to purchase some software to accomplish this (I have a 21.5 Core 3i iMac, newly purchased) Thanks As a side note: My 7 year old Motorola based iMac gave up the ghost - toasted Logic board, and I purchased a refurbished iMac. I was worried about being able to restore the new machine with TimeMachine. Worries that were totally unfounded as it turns out. I just plugged in the firewire external drives, selected the Migration Assistant and answered the questions about what I wanted transfered, and within a few minutes all was right with the world again. I have found that some of the web site passwords needed to be re-entered, but everything else (especially some oldish applications all worked fine.) Apart from the boot question am I missing something here? KKKKFL [/QUOTE]
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