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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
2006 iMac Startup problems
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<blockquote data-quote="Head_Unit" data-source="post: 1305825" data-attributes="member: 135495"><p>Um, 400 should run with 800, they're directly compatible. Or do you mean you don't have the right physical cable ends? I got a FW cable from Amazon cheap for an external drive.</p><p></p><p>An external drive with FW will let you install a bootable Mac OS. Mac won't boot from external USB. To be more precise, I put the HD inside the iMac, format it, yank it out into the external case, and put another HD inside the iMac. </p><p></p><p>When the internal fails (not if, but when!), I can just swap the external into the machine and away I go...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Head_Unit, post: 1305825, member: 135495"] Um, 400 should run with 800, they're directly compatible. Or do you mean you don't have the right physical cable ends? I got a FW cable from Amazon cheap for an external drive. An external drive with FW will let you install a bootable Mac OS. Mac won't boot from external USB. To be more precise, I put the HD inside the iMac, format it, yank it out into the external case, and put another HD inside the iMac. When the internal fails (not if, but when!), I can just swap the external into the machine and away I go... [/QUOTE]
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