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imac 10.3.9 won't boot from firewire
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wshelley46060
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Jun 17, 2006, 10:04 AM
 
I used carbon copy cloner to copy my internal HD to an external firewire HD. In system preferences, this external drive is identified as a bootable disc. When I set it to be the boot disc, my imac won't boot, eventually displaying a folder icon with a question mark.

Is there a setting or something to allow the external firewire HD to be the boot disc?
     
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Jun 17, 2006, 10:09 AM
 
BTW, I can access all the files on the external HD, so I don't think the disk is corrupted.
     
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Jun 17, 2006, 04:56 PM
 
It should just work. Have you used that drive to boot from before? Did you use the "make bootable" option in CCC?
     
   
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