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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
Will this work? Laptop to desktop?
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<blockquote data-quote="IvanLasston" data-source="post: 1407315" data-attributes="member: 145676"><p>A drive from the same computer - with the same architecture is bootable - but I doubt you could do the same with a different computer and different architecture. I.E. - I pulled the drive out of my Macbook Pro, put it in an enclosure. If I hit option when booting with that drive connected to my Macbook pro - it shows up as a boot partition. I booted lepoard from that old drive just fine. I doubt I could just plug that into an iMac and have it boot as there would be different drivers - but I've never tried it.</p><p></p><p>Since you didn't say exactly what Macbook you have - Mactracker shows all Macbooks as Intel type computers - therefore I would say you couldn't boot an intel installed disk with a G5 powerpc computer. </p><p></p><p>You should be able to see the data on the disk though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IvanLasston, post: 1407315, member: 145676"] A drive from the same computer - with the same architecture is bootable - but I doubt you could do the same with a different computer and different architecture. I.E. - I pulled the drive out of my Macbook Pro, put it in an enclosure. If I hit option when booting with that drive connected to my Macbook pro - it shows up as a boot partition. I booted lepoard from that old drive just fine. I doubt I could just plug that into an iMac and have it boot as there would be different drivers - but I've never tried it. Since you didn't say exactly what Macbook you have - Mactracker shows all Macbooks as Intel type computers - therefore I would say you couldn't boot an intel installed disk with a G5 powerpc computer. You should be able to see the data on the disk though. [/QUOTE]
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