Are USB Hard Drives bootable?
The new Macbook does not have a firewire port. Can I still use SuperDuper to make bootable clones using the USB 2.0 port?
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Not a problem, as long as the USB drive is properly partitioned (using the "GUID" partition scheme -- see the "Options" Button in the Partition tab of Disk Utility).
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I continue to recommend the drives I recommend in general in the User's Guide, so -- indeed -- not everything will work. But, in general, most USB drives should work. Why yours didn't I don't know.
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The same drives that I'm unable to boot a MacBook Air or 2008 MacBook from work just fine for booting Macs that have FireWire. There just must be a problem with the controller chips in some of the WD and G-Tech drives.
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