Updating an External Hard Drive Operating System to Yosemite

  I have a MacBook Pro (late 2007), it was upgraded to 500GB hard drive. I use the old hard drive as an external hard drive for backing up files from the MacBook Pro. It's operating system is version Mac 10.6.8 and formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Can this hard drive be upgrade to Yosemite 10.10?

Yes. You'll be given the option to choose it when setting up the Yosemite installation.
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