Will MacBook Pro boot from MacBook restore disk

I need to buy a OS 10.6.4 system disk for my mid-2010 Macbook Pro. There's a 2010 Macbook 10.6.4 restore disk on eBay. Will that definitely not work with my MBP?

It won't work unless it's from the same model. Order a replacement from Apple customer service, not from Ebay.

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I have a new macbook pro 2,6 Ghz i7, 8GB 1600Mhz internal ram. He will not boot from an external disk with operating system Snow Leopard

I have a new macbook pro 2,6Ghz i7, 8GB 1600 Mhz internal ram, but he will not boot from an external disk with operating system Snow Leopard.

These Macs shipped with 10.7, and will run nothing older than that:
MacBook Pro
Date introduced
Original Mac OS X included
(see Tips 1 and 3)
Later Mac OS X included
(see Tip 1)
Mac OS X Build(s)
(see Tip 2)
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)
Jun 2012
10.7.4
11E2068
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)
Jun 2012
10.7.4
11E2617
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
Jun 2012
10.7.4
11E2617
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)
Oct 2011
10.7.2
10.7.3
11C74, 11C2002, 11D2001
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011)
Oct 2011
10.7.2
10.7.3
11C74, 11C2002, 11D2001
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Late 2011)
Oct 2011
10.7.2
10.7.3
11C74, 11C2002, 11D2001

Why wont my brand new macbook pro boot to an external disk?

why wont my brand new macbook pro boot to an external disk? I have the 10.7.4 on both. The MBP came with it so I installed it onto the hard drive i have been using the same way with an older macbook pro but the new MBP does not see the startup disk. So i installed the same version of the os onto the MBP by hooking it up to my imac as a target disk because it would not recognize the install usb stick. Now the brand new MBP doesnt start up

I had the same issue. The 2012 macbook pro has a different 10.7.4 build that is not yet available for public release. It won't boot no matter how much you try. You need to wait for Mountain Lion and create a start up disk from ML. Apple most likely will release a 10.7.4 update for the 2012 models, but they are focused on ML now.

Should I boot from external hard disk and how do I achieve this?

I'm in a downward spiral and need advice about if booting off of an external hard disc is the right thing to do and how to go about it. How I got into this mess I'll write below. My immediate problem is that I want to be able to install a copy of osx 10.5 from the original disks that came with my computer onto a usb hard drive. Then I want to boot from that drive and install software such as disk warrior on the same external hard drive in order to repair and recover the files on my internal hard disk. Not sure if this is easy to do with the install disk that came boxed with my macbook. So is what I want to do feasible and how do I do it? Thanks.
How did I get into this mess?
For those with time to read more. A downward spiral (and my macbook was working fine)::
I have been backing up my work documents onto a 20 GB pendrive waiting to get the money to buy an nas to work with time machine for the two macbooks we have at home as a place to backup photos and video. I bought a network drive but it wouldn't work with my macbook; my time machine backup freezing at 3 gb, but works fine with wife's macbook pro.
I tried to do TM backup on a usb hard disk and got the same problem. Support forums indicated that hard disk problems could confuse TM, so although I was experiencing problem free computing I ran disk utility from internal osx. This indicated an <invalid node structure - file system verify or repair failed> at the checking catalog file stage. So I followed instructions to run disk utility and repair from the installation disk. When I ran disk utility from installation disk I get exactly the same <invalid node structure - file system verify or repair failed>. It gets worse.
After failing with install disk utility, I could not then boot from my hard disk (I had had trouble free computing up to my attempts to use TM) or eject the disk. At first attempt I had no option but to boot from dvd again as hd not offered as an option. Second attempt hd option available but fails. By reading advice given to others I managed to eject the dvd and have tried:
safe boot - it won't
boot in verbose mode and single user (indicates I have disk0s2:I/O error) and won't boot
try to use disk utility from install disk to create disk image on external hd, it won't (cites i/o error)
If I can boot from an external I will try to repair with Disk Warrior as forums indicate that this software has been able to solve <invalid node structure> issues (but am open to recommendations of other products). I also hope that I may be able to try again to burn a disk image sucessfully if this repair works. I'm still trying to save my photos and videos that aren't backed up.
I plan to try an archive and install installation but first I want to try a repair with disk warrior as I fear that archive and install won't work and I'll end up having to erase and repair my hard disk.
I feel like some perverse god is punishing me for trying to do the right thing and back up my hard disk.
Macbook 5.1 late 2008
Intel Core 2 Duo
OSX Leopard 10.5.8
85 GB of a 150GB hard disk needs backing up (saving)

I am not sure about this, but my memory is that if you try to partition the drive (in OS 10.5.8) it will erase the data.
But you can try. Go through the Add a partition steps, but watch for any warnings. If my memory is correct there will be a message to the effect that everything will be erased. If you see that, do not proceed. This page has info about how to do it, if it can be done: http://www.macworld.com/article/1164643/live_partition.html
With respect to DW on an external, I do that. I have a 80 GB external - I call it Emergency - with an OS, DW and TechTool Pro on it. (Since I have is a recovery partition built in with all new OS, Emergency would be of use only if I need to run DW or TTP.) I have never yet had to use it, but it's there. It is not usually connected - I just did that for this screen shot.

How to force boot from an external disk

My main start up disk has crashed. I have made a cloned disk using Super Duper that I have checked recently and the computer will boot from it. I also have another OS 10.6.3 on another internal disk.
I now want to boot from the cloned disk but the computer always defaults to the internal disk. I have tried using Start Up Disk in sys preferences. I have tried starting up with the option key held down.
Is there anything I can do to force the computer to start from the clone disk?
One other thing, I installed a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black drive to replace the crashed start up disk but Disk Uitility won't initialize it.
The computer is a 2007 Xeon quad core on OS 10.6.8.
Thanks

I got this, I think I did it right, not much into the terminal
Last login: Tue Dec 20 01:10:54 on ttys000
[Mac-Pro:~] Jon% nvram -p
efi-boot-device          <array><dict><key>IOMatch</key><dict><key>IOProviderClass</key><string>IOM edia</string><key>IOPropertyMatch</key><dict><key>UUID</key><string>7952C499-9C5 2-4D3A-A1CE-DA650BD0EEA0</string></dict></dict><key>BLLastBSDName</key><string>d isk0s2</string></dict></array>%00
prev-lang:kbd          en:0
boot-image          %02%01%0c%00%d0A%03%0a%00%00%00%00%01%01%06%00%02%1f%03%12%0a%00%01%00%00% 00%00%00%04%01*%00%02%00%00%00(@%06%00%00%00%00%00%e0%1f.:%00%00%00%00%99%c4RyR% 9c:M%a1%ce%dae%0b%d0%ee%a0%02%02%04%04%1a%006%00f%009%000%00b%000%00b%000%000%00 0%00%00%00%7f%ff%04%00
platform-uuid          %00%00%00%00%00%00%10%00%80%00%00%17%f2%02%a5p
BootCampHD          %02%01%0c%00%d0A%03%0a%00%00%00%00%01%01%06%00%02%1f%03%12%0a%00%01%00%00% 00%00%00%7f%ff%04%00
efi-apple-payload0          <array ID="0"><dict ID="1"><key>BLLastBSDName</key><string ID="2">disk0s1</string><key>IOMatch</key><dict ID="3"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="4">IOMedia</string><key>IOPropertyMatch</key><dict ID="5"><key>UUID</key><string ID="6">00007608-5456-0000-5118-000032640000</string></dict></dict></dict><dict ID="7"><key>IOEFIDevicePathType</key><string ID="8">MediaFilePath</string><key>Path</key><string ID="9">\EFI\APPLE\FIRMWARE\LOCKED_MP11_005C_08B.fd</string></dict></array>%00
SystemAudioVolume          -
efi-apple-payload0-data          %02%01%0c%00%d0A%03%0a%00%00%00%00%01%01%06%00%02%1f%03%12%0a%00%00%00%00% 00%00%00%04%01*%00%01%00%00%00(%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00@%06%00%00%00%00%00%08v%0 0%00VT%00%00Q%18%00%002d%00%00%02%02%04%04\%00\%00E%00F%00I%00\%00A%00P%00P%00L% 00E%00\%00F%00I%00R%00M%00W%00A%00R%00E%00\%00L%00O%00C%00K%00E%00D%00_%00M%00P% 001%001%00_%000%000%005%00C%00_%000%008%00B%00.%00f%00d%00%00%00%7f%ff%04%00
efi-boot-device-data          %02%01%0c%00%d0A%03%0a%00%00%00%00%01%01%06%00%02%1f%03%12%0a%00%00%00%00% 00%00%00%04%01*%00%02%00%00%00(@%06%00%00%00%00%00%e0%1f.:%00%00%00%00%99%c4RyR% 9c:M%a1%ce%dae%0b%d0%ee%a0%02%02%7f%ff%04%00
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Booting from a Firewire Disk backup - get Startup Manager to show FW disk

Hi all,
A hint that I have discovered whilst trying to create a backup on a Firewire external Hard disk and boot my eMac from it.
eMac 1.0GHz (ATI), OS X Tiger 10.4.7 and OWC Mercury Elite Pro 40Gb firewire external disk (Oxford 911+ chipset)
I created a bootable backup using both Carbon Copy Cloner and/or Rsyncx on the firewire disk, but with the same results each time - it woudn't boot from startup manager. I was careful to make sure that the disk was bootable and it would boot from the FW disk after selecting it in system preferences/startup disk and restarting. O.K so far.
OS X also offers an alternative boot method using the startup manager at boot time which you can enter by holding down the option key while turning on the eMac until the startup manager comes up. Normally it shows your "macitoshHD" and "repair" hard drives and you can select the preferred boot up drive. According to Apple help it should also show bootable Firewire disks, but I could not get this to happen.
After a bit of trial and error, I found this sequence reveals the FW dive.
. Make sure your firewire external drive is turned on and plugged in to a firewire port on your eMac.
.Power on the eMac whilst holding down the option key (The key with the apple and squiggley thing next to the spacebar)
.Keep holding the option key until the startup manager icons appear.
.Once the startup manager appears, it will take about 30 secs to 1 min to scan for drives.
. Usually icons showing your internal bootable drives will show along with a rescan and continue icon.
. To get the FW drive to show, hold down the option key and click the rescan button (the turned back arrow icon on the left)
.The system will then rescan and find the firewire drives and show their icons as well as the internal drive icons.
. Select the firewire drive (You did give it a unique name didn't you?) and the click the continue arrow on the right.
. Watch the FW drive activity light and you should see lots of flashing and there you are - booting from the FW drive.
I couldn't find any reference in all the help references to holding down the opt key to rescan, so maybe it is peculiar to this eMac?
Give it a try and be sure to let me know if it works for you.
Ian

OK JMVP, but there is something a little strange here.
After I booted the system whilst holding down the OPTION key, startup manager appeared and scanned for drives but only showed the normal internal drives. (By this time I had already released the OPTION key). I clicked the re-scan icon and same thing, still no FW drive. According to all the Apple help files it should show the external FW drive as well.
But, when I held down the the OPTION key and clicked the rescan icon again, it rescanned and showed the internal drives AND the FW drive. Maybe it's an undocumented feature of startup manager, maybe it's peculiar to the FW drive I'm using
I will try to update the firmware, but the manufacturers website says it doesn't need updating to work with Tiger. Other than this minor prob it already seems to be working OK. Just won't show up in the startup manager without rescanning with the option key pressed.
I did notice whilst searching the help files that there is another option to boot from external drives:
Hold down Option-Command-Shift-Delete keys during startup - this will Bypass primary startup volume and seek a different startup volume (such as a CD or external disk). It didn't work in my case.
Curious?
eMac (ATI) Mac OS X (10.4.7) Mac Newbie

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Hello, your installation disk is running under OSX??? If no the media has a problem!!!
1. Restart your mac and hold the alt (option key) to select media to install.
2. Restart you mac and hold the "c" key to boot.
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I have a Mid 2009 Macbook Pro 13 with no restore disk; it has OS 10.8.4 I believe there is something wrong with the OS due to I can not install flash player to view Youtube videos and the when we plug in a Bose headset the sound out will work sometimes

I bough a used Macbook Pro mid 2009 that came with OS 10.8.9 it didn't have a backup restore disk with S/N W8******66D
When trying to view some youtube videos; a window would pop up saying "it needs adobe flash player is required for video play back get the latest flash player" but after downloading the file and during installation would have errors and will not installed.....tried to reboot and install again.....but still the same.
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The "restore disk" is built into the Mac. See About Recovery.
Need more specifics about what error messages you got while installing Adobe Flash.
However, you can almost avoid Flash altogether by setting YouTube to play the HTML5 version instead.
Click the Try something new! link at the bottom of the YouTube page.
I don't know about the sound issue. Might be hardware as you think. Try other headphones to check.

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Hi!
I am really stuck as to why my macbook pro will no boot from the main Sata bay.
I have the macbook pro late 2011 - a few months ago I installed a samsung 840 evo, and moved the 500gb hdd into the optical bay and all has been working perfectly until last night.
I installed yosemite two days ago and it worked perfectly to begin with... then when I re opened my laptop everything was frozen. I restarted it and it wouldnt get past the grey screen. Then I managed to get it to the internet recovery stage....however it would not recognise the SSD, so I had to install Lion on the HDD.
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Think that is odd, until there is a new unified OS build for everyone, with new hardware like these there will be new builds every couple of weeks usually. 10.9.0 was long before they were ready for more than testing.
The Mac Pro 2010 went through that, even the 1,1 2006 had about three different builds before a new update for OS X existed.
OEM builds really are just that and not suitable the way retail is. I don't know how they manage pushing updates out now that it is through the App Store other than those are suitable for multiple Macs. ie, IF I have a new nMP sitting here and I 'goof' and need to reinstall the OS and I was negligant in making a backup with T.M. or a clone, and I have to do a net-install (no Mac Pro up till now had the feature) what build gets pushed to download for me? I would hope of course it is the build I had or later but until 9.2 is out...
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I'm trying to install Windows 7 via Bootcamp. I've used Bootcamp before so familiar I'm with how it should work. I have a USB CD drive, which I've used on other machines OK, and an official Windows Install Disk.
After Bootcamp finishes copying over all it's drivers etc to my external USB drive, it reboots. However, whenever I try to boot from a disk it always just hangs on the Apple logo (no spinning cog/wheel). This happens whenever the Bootcamp installer performs a reboot and/or when I hold down ALT on startup and select the boot CD.
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My Macbook Pro originally came with 10.7 Lion, is currently on 10.8 ML, and will soon be upgraded to 10.9 Mavericks. I have an older 10.6 Snow Leopard Clone. Can a Mac boot to an older version of OS X than what came preinstalled when it was new?

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On a regular basis when I turn my computer on, it starts up but gets hung during the boot process. If I turn it back off, disconnect the FW and then turn it back on, it boots normally. I can then plug back in the FW and it runs fine.
This problem has started since I upgraded OSX, although I added the SSD around the same time. I have updated to the latest firmware on the external WD disk. All Mountain Lion updates have been loaded.
Any ideas how to fix this problem or where to look for further information.

I have a 13" Late 2011 MacBook Pro with SSD running Mountain Lion 10.8.1. I have a 1 TB WD Firewire disk attached. I boot from the internal SSD.
On a regular basis when I turn my computer on, it starts up but gets hung during the boot process. If I turn it back off, disconnect the FW and then turn it back on, it boots normally. I can then plug back in the FW and it runs fine.
This problem has started since I upgraded OSX, although I added the SSD around the same time. I have updated to the latest firmware on the external WD disk. All Mountain Lion updates have been loaded.
Any ideas how to fix this problem or where to look for further information.

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