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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
Is it possible to boot from an external hard drive on a Macbook?
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<blockquote data-quote="lem144" data-source="post: 249696"><p>Yes, and I just did it last night. Create a disk image on your external drive and then hold Option when rebooting. You can select where to boot from that way. I have my external drive partitioned and it did not work too well, so I had to re-partition it (erasing data on it) for it to work. Now I have installed my new 160GB hdd in my macbook and it's working well. Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lem144, post: 249696"] Yes, and I just did it last night. Create a disk image on your external drive and then hold Option when rebooting. You can select where to boot from that way. I have my external drive partitioned and it did not work too well, so I had to re-partition it (erasing data on it) for it to work. Now I have installed my new 160GB hdd in my macbook and it's working well. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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Is it possible to boot from an external hard drive on a Macbook?
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