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Hard Drive Upgrade and White Screen HELP
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<blockquote data-quote="darkstar12" data-source="post: 973144" data-attributes="member: 138410"><p>Ok, call off the dogs. I resolved it. Seems that Mac doesnt recognize external hard drives through USB even if they have been formatted. I have seen alot of conflicting info on boards regarding this topic. Most of which saying older ones wouldn't and newer intel based ones would. Mine wouldnt. </p><p></p><p>Anyhow, solution was to put old drive back in, hook up new duplicate drive through USB, boot from old one INTO the OS, look for mounted new drive in USB. Go to preferences and select HD to boot from that new disk as default. Shut down. Swap disks with new one in Mac. Boot, and you are there. </p><p></p><p>Why "option" tab doesnt bring me into any boot menu regardless boggles me. You would think that there would be some type of bios commands that overide anything. This is dinfitely the one (and perhaps only) area that Windows has it over Mac. They mac everytihng so good and simple that they give you very little lower level control if you ever need it (or want it). But then again, seldom need it. I do love Mac and have already committed to not spending another dime on Windows. Nothing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="darkstar12, post: 973144, member: 138410"] Ok, call off the dogs. I resolved it. Seems that Mac doesnt recognize external hard drives through USB even if they have been formatted. I have seen alot of conflicting info on boards regarding this topic. Most of which saying older ones wouldn't and newer intel based ones would. Mine wouldnt. Anyhow, solution was to put old drive back in, hook up new duplicate drive through USB, boot from old one INTO the OS, look for mounted new drive in USB. Go to preferences and select HD to boot from that new disk as default. Shut down. Swap disks with new one in Mac. Boot, and you are there. Why "option" tab doesnt bring me into any boot menu regardless boggles me. You would think that there would be some type of bios commands that overide anything. This is dinfitely the one (and perhaps only) area that Windows has it over Mac. They mac everytihng so good and simple that they give you very little lower level control if you ever need it (or want it). But then again, seldom need it. I do love Mac and have already committed to not spending another dime on Windows. Nothing. [/QUOTE]
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