External DVD Drive

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External DVD Drive

Alright, my DVD drive broke on my eMac and I need to do an erase and install. I have an external DVD drive, but it's USB so it's no-go from there. If I copy the disc off of the drive and create a mountable disc on my computer, would it be possible to install from that?

eMac, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Aug 13, 2006 10:10 AM

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Kappy

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Aug 13, 2006 10:43 AM in response to Veovis

No. You need to boot either from an external hard drive or from an external bootable DVD drive. You can purchase a Firewire enclosure and put the drive from the USB enclosure into the Firewire enclosure. If the DVD drive is bootable you should then be able to use it as a startup device. Alternatively, replace the broken one in your eMac.

If you have another computer with Firewire you could connect the two and put the eMac into Target Disk Mode.

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