mach751

Q: how do i boot from an external hard drive

Before I upgraded from snow leopard to mountain lion I backed up my entire hard drive onto an external hard drive.  My Quicken 2007 will not open because of the old architecture of PowerPC.  How do I boot my MacBook Pro from the external hard drive so I can use Quicken 2007?

MacBook Pro, iOS 7

Posted on Oct 12, 2013 4:00 PM

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Q: how do i boot from an external hard drive

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  • by PlotinusVeritas,Solvedanswer

    PlotinusVeritas PlotinusVeritas Oct 12, 2013 4:04 PM in response to mach751
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    Oct 12, 2013 4:04 PM in response to mach751

     

     

    cloning APPS

     


    SuperDuper (free)

    http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html


    Carbon Copy Cloner

    http://www.bombich.com/

     

     

    1. grab carbon copy cloner or superDuper CLONE app.

     

    2 attach target clone drive via USB in an enclosure or HD dock. Firstly format the target (external new) HD or SSD in disk utility in “Mac OS extended journaled”

     

    3. clone internal HD to target HD or SSD (external) [takes about 40 mins depending on size]

     

    4. Boot ONCE from external (go to sys. preference to boot from external) to TEST the new Clone

  • by kevbot96,Helpful

    kevbot96 kevbot96 Oct 12, 2013 4:10 PM in response to mach751
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    Oct 12, 2013 4:10 PM in response to mach751

    IF you already cloned the drive, then plug it into one of the available ports and hold the option key at startup. You should see your Macintosh HD volume appear and you can manually restore from that volume.

  • by PlotinusVeritas,

    PlotinusVeritas PlotinusVeritas Oct 12, 2013 4:14 PM in response to mach751
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    Oct 12, 2013 4:14 PM in response to mach751

    He never claimed he cloned it, and even if a Time Machine is in place, you cannot boot to desktop from Time Machine

  • by OGELTHORPE,Helpful

    OGELTHORPE OGELTHORPE Oct 12, 2013 4:17 PM in response to mach751
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    Oct 12, 2013 4:17 PM in response to mach751

    You will have to install Snow Leopard on the external HDD.  If the copy you made already has Snow Leopard on it (as well as Quicken 2007) your already done.  Just connect your external HDD to your MBP and start it by holding the OPTION key down.  The generated display will show both the internal HDD and the external one.  Click on the external one and you will then be able to use all PPC applications.

     

    If the external HDD does not have Snow Leopard on it, connect the external HDD to your MBP and start it up using your Snow Leopard installation disk, holding down the C key.  Proceed with the installation and when you get to the point where you choose the location of the OS, select the external HDD.  Then complete the balance ofb the installation.

     

    Ciao.

  • by ds store,

    ds store ds store Oct 12, 2013 5:21 PM in response to mach751
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    Oct 12, 2013 5:21 PM in response to mach751

    mach751 wrote:

     

    I backed up my entire hard drive onto an external hard drive.

     

    If the "entire drive" means OS X, programs and files. (Including the hidden EFI partition)

     

    Then>

     

    If the external hard drive was formated GUID, OS X Extended Journaled and you used Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper

     

    Then >

     

    it's a clone and you can connect it and reboot the machine holding the option/alt on a wired or build in keyboard and Startup Manager launches and you can boot the 10.6 clone.

     

     

     

    If it's a TimeMachine drive, it's already updated itself to be 10.7 and 10.6 is gone.

     

    If you used some sort of other backup system, then likely not bootable, but it might be able to restore to yet another drive, but unless it's "blessed" it won't boot.

     

     

    If you can't boot from the 10.6 drive, then you can chose to install 10.6 onto a exernal drive and boot from it

     

    .Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive

     

    Or you can install Snow Leopard server into a virtual machine

     

    Snow Leopard on 10.7+ Mac