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Is my Mac Pro bootable from FireWire and/or USB?
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Senior User
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Australia
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Can someone tell me is my Mac Pro bootable using an external FireWire or USB hard drive?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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Yes, Mactels are bootable from Firewire and, to my knowledge, from USB 2.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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yes hold down option when you turn the machine on and if there is a bootable drive attached it will show up
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Senior User
Join Date: Nov 2002
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Originally Posted by Big Mac 
Yes, Mactels are bootable from Firewire and, to my knowledge, from USB 2.
Someone told me USB2 is bootable (like current PC), but I think I read some articles (Macworld??) that USB2 is not bootable on a Mac... I just don't wanna spend $$$ to get a 2+Gb USB drive and install MacOS X on the drive and experiment it  (And I don't own a iPod/iPod mini/nano to test it out either  )
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Anson, TX
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i've restored both a techtool and diskwarrior image to my usb2 external drive and they both booted fine
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Nov 2000
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AFAIK Intel Macs can boot from USB disks, PPC Macs can't.
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