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Booting from an External Drive (OS 8.6+)
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How do I boot from an external drive on my OS8.6+ Mac?
Booting from an External Drive (OS 8.6+)
Sometimes you may want to boot from an external drive ... a CD or ZIP drive, for most of us.
If you're running OS 8.6 or newer, just go to Apple Menu => Control Panels => Startup Disk, and select the disk you wish to start from (of course, you must insert a ZIP or CD in the external drive before you can select it). The disk you select must have a System Folder to be bootable.
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