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Confused over booting from external drive
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<blockquote data-quote="Sawday" data-source="post: 1308043" data-attributes="member: 22882"><p>Following the death of my Freecom external drive I've been looking for an alternative. I'd almost settled on Seagate goFlex Desktop drives - a 2TB for Time Machine backups and a 1TB (or another 2TB) for Carbon Copy Clone backups with the intention of being able to boot from the latter should my iMac fail. (Both of these drives are on a mega offer at Amazon right now)</p><p></p><p>However, I've just been told by Seagate that I cannot boot from their drives. Are they correct or misinformed?</p><p></p><p>As an aside, I note that Seagate produce a mac specific version of their GoFlex Desk external drive (Aluminium colour not black), but this does not appear to be available in the UK - has anyone bought one of these in the UK?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sawday, post: 1308043, member: 22882"] Following the death of my Freecom external drive I've been looking for an alternative. I'd almost settled on Seagate goFlex Desktop drives - a 2TB for Time Machine backups and a 1TB (or another 2TB) for Carbon Copy Clone backups with the intention of being able to boot from the latter should my iMac fail. (Both of these drives are on a mega offer at Amazon right now) However, I've just been told by Seagate that I cannot boot from their drives. Are they correct or misinformed? As an aside, I note that Seagate produce a mac specific version of their GoFlex Desk external drive (Aluminium colour not black), but this does not appear to be available in the UK - has anyone bought one of these in the UK? [/QUOTE]
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