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Aug 12, 2015 8:40 AM in response to Norman Howell1by Norman Howell1,seagate usb drive is journaled and encrypted. All files are there and functional.
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Aug 12, 2015 8:42 AM in response to Norman Howell1by Roger Wilmut1,★HelpfulTo start from another disk hold the option (alt) key while booting your Mac. You will be shown icons representing the available disks with valid systems. Click the one you want. and hit return. Next time you boot normally you will do so from the usual disk.
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Aug 12, 2015 8:44 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1by Norman Howell1,Thanks, I will give that a try. Never done this before so am working blind. You have shed light on my problem;
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Aug 12, 2015 9:45 AM in response to Norman Howell1by Norman Howell1,Thanks but I am still not getting in. Apparently when I copied my hard drive to the seagate it did not copy the system files. The seagate drive does not show as a potential start up drive. How do I get the seagate to become a startup drive? Do I need to coy OSX Lion onto it and can I do that? This is the only mac I have so have downloaded it only onto one computer. I am lost. Seems apple would give some straightforward instructions as to how to update your drive to a journaled format so I could update my OS. bummer.
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Aug 12, 2015 9:50 AM in response to Norman Howell1by Allan Eckert,How did you copy to the Seagate drive?
If you did a drag and drop then all of the invisible files were not copied.
The only way to get everything is to have used cloning software to do the copy.
The directions are at Make a bootable clone of your boot drive
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Aug 12, 2015 9:51 AM in response to Allan Eckertby Norman Howell1,I used disk utility to do the copying. Took about 5-6 hours to make the copy.
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Aug 12, 2015 10:21 AM in response to Norman Howell1by Norman Howell1,Thanks but I am still not getting in. Apparently when I copied my hard drive to the seagate it did not copy the system files. The seagate drive does not show as a potential start up drive. How do I get the seagate to become a startup drive? Do I need to coy OSX Lion onto it and can I do that? This is the only mac I have so have downloaded it only onto one computer. I am lost. Seems apple would give some straightforward instructions as to how to update your drive to a journaled format so I could update my OS. bummer.
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Aug 12, 2015 12:57 PM in response to Norman Howell1by BobHarris,★HelpfulEasy solution. Get a copy of SuperDuper (free for full clone)
It can create a bootable clone of your current boot disk onto an external disk.
Next level of difficulty.
Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility
Select the external disk
Partition -> Options -> GUID partition type
Create a partition with Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)
Disk Utility -> Restore
Select your current boot disk as "Source"
Select your external disk as the "Destination"
Click "Restore" button
This will copy the boot disk to the external disk.
With either utility DO NOT get confused about which device is source and which is destination.