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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
27" Imac Temperature Sensor?
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<blockquote data-quote="lute" data-source="post: 1743492" data-attributes="member: 387202"><p>All was good for a week and then the hard drive died. </p><p>Until I can get the parts to fix it I am trying to find a temporary solution.</p><p>Using a spare 32 gig flash drive I downloaded El Capitan OS X from my App Store purchases and then transferred to the drive.</p><p>Using the Option key all seems to proceed until it asks what drive to install to. When I pick the USB drive I then get a screen saying "volume contains an OS X installation which may be damaged". Tried erasing and reloading the flash drive and get the same message.</p><p>So my first question is: Is it possible to boot up directly from a flash drive with an installer on it? Can the installer application that is on the flash drive install to the same flash drive?</p><p>I am surpassingly ignorant of how all this works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lute, post: 1743492, member: 387202"] All was good for a week and then the hard drive died. Until I can get the parts to fix it I am trying to find a temporary solution. Using a spare 32 gig flash drive I downloaded El Capitan OS X from my App Store purchases and then transferred to the drive. Using the Option key all seems to proceed until it asks what drive to install to. When I pick the USB drive I then get a screen saying "volume contains an OS X installation which may be damaged". Tried erasing and reloading the flash drive and get the same message. So my first question is: Is it possible to boot up directly from a flash drive with an installer on it? Can the installer application that is on the flash drive install to the same flash drive? I am surpassingly ignorant of how all this works. [/QUOTE]
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