Trying my darnedest to install to an external...
Trying my darndest to install to an external (to boot) but all kinds of things are going wrong. I could run Mountain Lion from it, tried to upgrade and my drive shut off during the install process, have re-partitioned/erased/etc since...
When re-starting my laptop and going back into my normal (interal) drive it doesn't even see the external again until I unplug/replug the drive's power in...
I wanted to check out Mavericks before upgrading my internal drive to make sure everything is ok, but this external is pretty much the only way I can do that.
500gb, set up as journaled and GUID... like I said, I used a dmg of a previous OS X originally on it, worked the handful of times I booted into it but now I can't seem to even install any OS X versions on to it.
Ideas?
Creating a sandbox Mavericks drive to play with before committing to an upgrade is most prudent. I applaud you. Here is an idea that is simpler to execute with greater functionality for such a test. It is much simpler than the standard work needed to create the a Mavericks boot disk and will serve you better for putting a toe in the waters of Mavericks.
Use Carbon Copy Cloner (or Super Duper!) to create a bootable clone of your system drive on your external hard drive. It will be a bootable recovery drive and a full backup that is more dependable than Time Machine. Since you started this path to check out Mavericks before upgrading to it, a bootable clone will be right up your alley. After creating the clone you can run the Mavericks upgrade on it and then boot from it. You will then have a sandboxed copy of all your data running on Mavericks you can play with without having committed to the upgrade.
Using CCC for backups:
If you create a CCC clone and then do not keep it up to date it will function well as a bootable emergency recovery disk. If you keep the CCC clone up to date then when your system crashes you can boot off of it and be back up and running in minutes. I am not suggesting you replace Time Machine with CCC but that you augment your backup regime with CCC clone(s). Imagine surfing the web and reading your email while Time Machine is rebuilding your system disk after a crash. Imagine having a firm fallback position if a Time Machine restore should fail.
I use a combination of Time Machine (easy to use and technically complex and therefore more fragile) and Carbon Copy Cloner (also easy to use and technically simple and therefore more robust). A difference is Time Machine makes hourly backups and keeps incremental changes while CCC backups run less frequently (usually triggered manually but they can be scheduled to run automatically) and CCC keeps only the latest full backup image. I have had Time Machine fail during crucial restores so I sleep better knowing I have clones in addition to Time Machine backups.
See: Most commonly used backup methods:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3045 and
Methodology to protect your data. Backups vs. Archives. Long-term data protection
P.S. There is a very active threat about Time Machine running dreadfully slow on Mavericks for some people. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5471457?start=75&tstart=0 (I have not experienced this bug myself.) I mention this because it illustrates the fragility and complexity of Time Machine. When it works it is the bees knees but it does not always work.
Also in that thread there is a warning not to use FireWire hard drives on Mavericks until a known bug is fixed. You did not say how your HDD is connected. If it is over FireWire then consider connecting it over USB until the problem is solved.
For me, my Mavericks upgrade has been very smooth. I had to update one third-party app and rebuild my Mail directory. No other issues for me.
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