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External USB drive
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NavyGreen33@gmail.com
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Jun 14, 2005, 09:00 PM
 
I bought an external USB drive thinking that I could boot OSX from it (someone said they could do this), but now that I know I cant, I don't know what to do with it. Can I still install applications to it? Is there an adapter I could get to make it firewire? I really feel that I could put some use to this thingbut I dont know what.
     
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Jun 14, 2005, 09:58 PM
 
You could replace the bridge board, but that's more trouble than it's worth. Sell the USB and get a FireWire, or just save the USB drive for file backups and get the FireWire for booting.

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