Booting older OSX versions via external HDD

I am running OSX 10.8.4. Can I install and boot some of the previous versions of OSX via external HDD?

Why do you want to run previous versions of Mac OS X?
Such as Snow Leopard:
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Leopard:
Maybe Tiger? Well, not in Mt. Lion...

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Where from to download older OSX version (10.9)?

Hi.
I just bought a new Mac. Thrilling...
It comes with Yosemite,
however my studio driver (UAD) support still older version only (10.9),
so I need to downgrade my OSX version.
What is the recommended download link for older OSX version (latest 10.9).
I can't find a legit link through Apple site.
Regards,
Booli.

Ok, according to this link, the 2013 Mac Pro OS X version is 10.9
Mac Pro (Late 2013)
Dec 2013
10.9
10.9.2, 10.9.4
13A4023, 13C64, 13E28
So where can I achieve one of these specific builds..?

OSX freezes while external HDD starts up.

I have a WD My Book Studio connected to my Mac via firewire 800.
Over time the HDD goes into a sleep mode.
When using OSX, the HDD randomly starts up.
I have had it start up when simply using the brush tool in Photoshop to surfing the net.
For the duration of the boot OSX freezes up, it can take anything from 5-15 seconds.
It isn't to much of a problem, however if there is a way to prevent this from happening. It would be good to know.

I have disabled the "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" in System Preferences -> Energy Saver.
It however did not affect the external HDD.
As for un-mounting the drive and remounting it. I know that works, however it is haste. I'm not sure if there is a solution for this. Do Seagate HDDs have the same problem ?
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ITunes Library access via external HDD w/ AirPort Extreme

Ok wizards... I've read a number of posts, but can't seem to pull together the answer to my question and hoping someone's able to push me in the right direction.
I've got a Windows 7 PC with my iTunes library stored on an external HDD due to it's size. My PC is often not at home (i travel for work a lot) and would like to have my library available to my family via my Apple TV when i'm not there. So... I'm contemplating buying an AirPort Extreme and connecting the HDD. I have read that the HDD must be formatted to FAT32 for it to function w/ the AirPort extreme (seemingly an arduous step, but surmountable) but can't seem to find a clear answer to the question:
Will I be able to access my Library via the Apple TV via this method? Obviously any tips / tricks would be greatly appreciated and thanks (in advance) for anyone who can help!
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Will I be able to access my Library via the Apple TV via this method? Obviously any tips / tricks would be greatly appreciated and thanks (in advance) for anyone who can help!
No, at least not directly. You would still need an iTunes "server" to stream the iTunes media to the Apple TV. Typically a iTunes server would be a Mac or PC computer running iTunes.

Will the New MaPro running Maveriks do a select boot from an external HD of older OSX versions?

Hi...
I was wondering if the new MacPro will do an Option selective boot of an external HD bootable backup made using SuperDuper? The drive would be a FW800 external connected via adaptor as the nMP has nonly TB and USB 3 ports.

As shipped, the new MacPro late 2103 will boot ONLY from the software it shipped with, or a re-load of the software it shipped with. Nothing older.
You may be able to install and fiddle with Virtualization software to get an older version to run under a Hypervisor, but it will be some work.

Problems booting from OSX DVD and External FW HDD

I've been trying recently to take a Dual-Bay Firewire Harddrive unit running a Oxford Semiconductor OXFW911 Chipset. I have two 250GB Hard drives and on one of these I have it Partitioned into 3 partitions. One is my Scratch Partition, one is the Restore of a DVD Install Disc and the last is a "Pre-Installed" version of OSX. I want to be able to boot from the Install DVD partition and the "Pre-Installed" Partition. I have successfully Imaged the Install DVD Partition and was able to boot from that partition once to install OSX on a computer without a DVD drive.
Problem now is that I can't boot from the partition, or I should say, I select it from the Sys Prefs and it will pass the grey screen to a the blue background and just get hung up. It never displays the dialog to select a language to begin the install.
I also can not boot from the Install DVD. It will show up in the Startup Disk in Sys Prefs but always ends up hanging.
I've tried booting using "Option" and it displays my Internal HD and then two icons for the Install DVD Partition on the External FW Drive. Neither one allows for me boot up.
Any ideas for what I may be missing?
Thanks,
Russ

It appears that if the Partition with OSX was installed from anything besides the Restore Disc, the Powerbook won't boot to it.
I think this is ridiculous, and if I've went wrong somewhere, someone please correct me.
Thanks.

Can boot camp install windows in external hdd connected via usb

i have win 7 img. in my mac also 500 gb ext hdd
can i install windows in that hdd?????
also i have selected the iso fle n its now downloading support software
so how much time it will take its 3 hours now

No you can't install windows on external drive.

Display out, how to boot from OSX CD with external monitor

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My LCD display is broken and I have been using an external monitor for some time, however I'm ready to sell my laptop and wanted to wipe the drive and reload OSX. When I try to boot from the OSX CD I can see part of a desktop on my external monitor and I can see the curser move but some of the desktop is out of view as if the screen wasn't being scaled properly. Any way to make this work so I can see everything?

Hi, mrhifi. I typed a reply earlier, but I must have hit the "Back" button instead of "Post Reply".
After booting to your CD or DVD, press the F7 key to toggle between mirroring and extended-display mode on the external screen. This may give you a complete, usable desktop on that display. However, I don't know that it will work as it should with your built-in display broken. You'll just have to try it and see.

Can't boot Arch from external HDD

Hi, well first off this is not my first Arch Linux installation, I'm using Arch for a little over a year now (coming from slack). But this is my first attempt to have Arch on an external HDD.
Alrighty, the situation is as follows: A rather new computer (supports booting from USB devices and the bios is set to boot from removable devices first) with a built in HDD and an external HDD that's connected to that computer via USB.
What I did: I connected the external HDD to the computer and booted off a 2008.6 Overlord core-CD.
Arch-Live recognized the internal HDD as sda and the external HDD as sdb.
I partitioned the external HDD using cfdisk and ran mkfs.ext3 on it (I didn't use any switches with that).
I started the installer, set my mount points (I should mention I'm not gonna use a swap partition here), installed the packages, well just went through the installation routine and installed grub in the MBR of sdb (the external HDD).
Then I rebooted. And this is what doesn't work: When I boot that computer with the external HDD connected the computer completely hangs right before grub would come up. It freezes completely, ctrl+alt+del doesn't work, I need to use the powerswitch to reboot the computer.
So I put the Arch-CD back in the CD drive trying to boot into my Arch System on the external HDD. So I started typing:
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdb1 ro vga=773
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
When I try to boot off that grub tells me that there is no such device as hd1,0. The funny thing is, that the auto copmletion in grub works for the kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 but it doesn't for the device /dev/sdb1, in fact even root=/de<tab> returns a "unrecognized string" message.
So this is what I did and I can't boot off my external HDD, neither can I boot into my system on the external hdd from the cdrom.
What am I missing here?

The harddrive you boot from is in my experience always hd0. Could this mean your external disc is hd2?
Have you tried chainloading from the installer cd to your external disc?

Can I boot a Windows OS on my iMac from an external HDD?

I have two hard disk drives:
One is inside of my 2009 iMac, running leopard. Also on my internal drive is a Windows OS partition, currently running windows 7. One is a WD 1TB external HDD, which I boot Mountain Lion off of. The thing is, I'm running out of room on my internal hard disk drive. Since it is entirely possible to boot Mountain Lion from my external HDD, would it be a good bet that I can make my iMac do the same for a Windows OS? Or is this not the case?

Microsoft does not allow a installation of any version of Windows on an EHD. This is not an OS X or iMac issue,it's strictly with MS Windows.
However, some people have developed hacks to make installing Windows on an EHD possible, the keyword is hacks so you are left on your own to find out how to do it and support it.
Sorry for the discouraging news but unfortunately that's how it is.
As a work around I'd recommend moving large libraries to another EHD, examples of large libraries are iTunes, iMovie & iPhoto. Apple provides instructions on how to do this, you can find them at:
iTunes: How to move the library to an EHD
iMovie: How to move the Library to an EHD
iPhoto: How to move the Library to an EHD
If you make these moves then you can do a standard installation of Windows on your iMac using either Boot Camp or virtualization software such as Parallels or Fusion.

Booting from USB external HDD on Satelite L30

Hi,
Is it possible to boot winxp (pro, sp2) from external HDD case connected by USB?
Some previous topics suggest that it is not possible (officially), but one (http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=21996) says that it is. I have tried to search for mentioned method, but with no results (maybe because english is not my native language).
It is very important for me, and I would really appreciate if anyone could give me a hint.
Second question is about "plus" before HDD boot option in BIOS (Phenix afair). Is suggests it is possible to connect more then one disc - if so, then how? Inside laptop, of course, there is no additional room...
Thank you in advance!

Hi
> I have tried to search for mentioned method, but with no results
As the other threads already suggested its not possible to boot from the external USB HDD. You can boot from HDD, CD/DVD, FDD, LAN.
The external USB FDD can be connected to the notebook and you could boot into the dos from the diskette.
By the way; this notebook does not support select bay and you cannot insert a second HDD

I want to install yosemite via external hd but my internal hd is not showing in the utilise disk

please help i think I'm stuck
Have been trying every way i know and found on internet to install os x yosemite on my macbook pro 2.4GHz the final method i tried is to install via external hd since my new hdd don't have recovery on it i boot in successfully with the external hdd but my internal hdd is not showing up so i can not install on it. pleas help.

It would be helpful if you indicated the EXACT model/year MBP that you have and the current OSX>
What is preventing you from installing Yosemite directly to the internal HDD?
Ciao.

Installation of Windows 7 via USB External HDD (Boot Camp Assistant)

How do I mount Windows 7 Ultimate disk image (.iso) onto my USB external HDD so that I can boot using that USB external HDD? I have tried reEFIt, but it doesn't work for me. It may be because I did something wrong. I would appreciate a comprehensive guide. Thanks.

i suspect you haven't prepared the USB drive as a boot volume.
You can absolutely do this. It is detailed on CNET in the following article: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31012_7-20020513-10355804.html

Is it possible to use Boot Camp to partition an external hard drive so there is a OSX partition and a Windows partiton? I want to use the external drive for backup only, NOT to load Windows and NOT to use as a boot drive.

I have partitioned the internal hard drive and am running Lion and Win7 Pro on my iMac i5 2.7GHz with 16GB RAM. Can I use Boot Camp to create a Windows partition on an OSX external hard drive to use for backing up both systems to the same HDD? I do NOT want to install OSX Lion or Windows 7 Professional on the external drive. I do NOT want to boot either system from the external drive. The 3TB external drive is for backup only.

Use NTFS for Windows and buy Paragon NTFS for OS X
You can also try Paragon HFS for Windows
As long as you are using for data and backups, you can leave the drive as GPT too.
I would recommend strongly to always have a 2nd bootable Mac OS drive, only need 30GB partition. System maintenance. Though LIon Recovery Mode finally makes it less but not totally unneeded.
And yes you can use Windows to create a partition.
Boot Camp is too broad. Do you want or mean BC Assistant? not needed but probably possible.
MBR has trouble with 3TB drives.

Booting up in Windows from an external HDD...

Hey-there... new to Mac and looking for a hand if you can.
Am going to be using my Mac to support users in a Windows environment soon and wondering how I'd go about keeping all my work related stuff - WindowsXP, Applications and specific related data - on an external HDD then boot off of it (via FireWIRE) when I require a 'Windows machine'. Do I boot off an external drive via the 'Startup Disk' or 'Option Button' to affect this?
Is this even my best solution with respect to Mac?
Also, my display has just started to dim and become bright again as I'm typing just now (not happened before) - what's up with that? (Have I perhaps managed to tip some kind of 'hot-key' without knowing it?)
Surrender your thoughts...
Thanks heaps!

Whoa... been looking about the place since my original post - I see that this whole subject is somewhat of a moot point. (Whoops!)
For anyone in the situation that I was in earlier (wanting to find out more info), might I suggest starting out at:
http://www.dualbootguru.com/bc%20-%20booting%20external%20hdd.shtml
Enjoy...

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