apreichner Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Alright so i would appreciate any input any of you guys could give me. First I will lists the steps of my install. I had an external 250gb USB hard drive. It was formatted with NTFS and I've been using it to store files. I decided I was going to see if I could boot OS X on the drive. So in Windows I resized the partition and then I went into Disk Director Suite and formatted the partition as a Primary, Active, Fat32 partition. I then proceeded to go through the OS X install. I formatted it HFS+ and let the install finish. I then tried to boot the partition on the external drive and when I select it under boot options it loads up and then nothing happens. I see my computer start up as normal and it gets to the part where it sees all of my drives and stuff, but it does not boot. I don't get any errors at all it just doesn't boot. Anybody have any ideas? My hardware setup is as follows: Jas 10.4.8 Install DVD ASUS A8N5X NForce4 Motherboard AMD Athlon 3200+ 2.1ghz Socket 939 Seagate 250gb FreeAgent USB 2.0 drive 80gb EIDE Western Digital Sony DVDRW Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83458-installing-to-external/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
apreichner Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 Anybody have any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83458-installing-to-external/#findComment-592874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scousi Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Anybody have any ideas? I have the same problem. I get missing operating system when I try to boot from external USB. Does anyone have a clue? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83458-installing-to-external/#findComment-593787 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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