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 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 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 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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