Making a bootable external drive on a new Intel MacBook

I have a relatively new MacBook Pro (July 07). I was having some problems with the computer freezing up on me so I wanted to look into it and see if I have a drive problem. I have TechTool Protégé. Disk Wizard. Nothing would boot the computer. I can set them as a start up disk in Start up Preferences but all that happens is I get bounced back to my internal hard drive. I tried starting with option key and selecting TechTool and same thing. I looked around and apparently according to Micromat they have not received some needed development disk from Apple to do this. It is not clear to me from the Disk Wizard folks have a disk I can use if I get a problem. DasBoot needs a start up disk from someone else and of course you can not install Tiger to a FireWire drive using the original install disk. Is there any way to make a external startup disk of any kind for disk maintenance program? Disk Utility runs but off the install disk but that is it. Why can you not use the install disk to boot the computer and then run programs off a external disk? I really do not want to ship the computer to Apple and wait for days if a simple disk utility would fix the problem. I an not a happy camper.

Actualy for some reason unknown to me the system install disk puts a big red excermation point over the now empty Firewire drive. Some great new "feature" on the new intel chip set computers! I have in the past installed OS X on various external drives in the past, but this will not let me install. I was hoping for a custom minimal install so I was not thinking Carbon copy cloner. I will look in to that next. Does any one know if you could do this on a USB2 drive?

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I, like some of the other posters I have read, have messed up the permissions on a bootable external drive.
I don't have direct access to my home computer right now so I set up an external bootable copy of my personal account, so I can basically run a copy of my own personal computer from anyone elses mac. And when I get back home I will be able to copy back across any new files.
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Can you help me with the commands, to first repair the group permission so my disk is bootable again, then second so that I can prevent anyone with out my password access to any files on the disk?
On another machine, open the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder, select your drive in the list of disks, and then click on the Repair Permissions button; other solutions are available if this doesn't work.
Your two goals are mutually exclusive; there is no way to restrict access to an entire disk to yourself while maintaining the ability of that disk to boot Mac OS X. Your home folder can be protected in this way by changing the permissions on the item inside /Users/ with the house icon, or by turning on FileVault in the Security pane of System Preferences.
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mattfromallston wrote:
I have a new Mac arriving tomorrow, to replace my current one. What is the easiest way to get my entire Library into iTunes on my new Mac?
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Partitioning bootable external drive.

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mstrammd wrote:
I am already using a Time Capsule for backups. I have over a year's worth of backups on the TC. Yes, I could clone the internal HD, but it is 750 GB and >would require the purchase of another drive.
I see. The size of a clone is related to the space used on the drive rather than the drive size.
Besides, current iMac is going to be replaced by one of the new i7 Quad core machines with a 2 TB HD. I am buying the RAID solution to have redundancy of important files and primarily HD video, audio, and RAW image files. What is the >advantage of cloning when I'm already using the Time Machine/Time capsule.
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Using Migration Assistant on external drive for moving new apps to Leopard

I'm sorry if this has been covered, but I searched and couldn't find the answer on any previous posts.
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I didn't know I needed to disconnect the FW drive in the first place. That may be the root of all my problems.
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Hilal Malawi wrote:
Thanks, but that site doesn't have a clear answer.
Correct. As it clearly states, there are too many variables to have detailed solutions for every possible situation.
In the 'pink' box, which best matches my situation, the instructions begin with: "•You must be logged on to the account being moved...".
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