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When Imaging Macs, I usually have a bootable image on an external hard drive, option boot via firewire and then image the computer with disc utility from a .dmg stored on the external. I have been doing this for ages (I work in my university tech shop), and they just got use new hard drives: The Western Digital Passport Studio.
It can be seen here: My Passport Studio 320 GB Triple Interface Hard Drives ( WDMT3200 )
For some reason I'm unable to boot to this drive. I've created a single partition will all the drive's space, and done the usual routine and when I go to option boot it will not boot to the drive. If I go to 'startup disc' in the system preferences, it sees the drive as a bootable drive. When I restart to boot to the drive, I get the 'question mark' flashing that it cannot find an OS, and then boots to the hard drive.
I'm wondering if Western Digital has their own partition on the drive that disc utility would see when I partition/format/image it? Could that be what the computer sees, and tries to boot from instead of my partition/image?
What can I do to make my drive bootable, be it delete the partition I cannot see in disc utility, or create the image in a specific way. Does the fact that I'm having to convert to Firewire 800 to Firewire 400 via a cable make a difference?
Thanks so much.
It can be seen here: My Passport Studio 320 GB Triple Interface Hard Drives ( WDMT3200 )
For some reason I'm unable to boot to this drive. I've created a single partition will all the drive's space, and done the usual routine and when I go to option boot it will not boot to the drive. If I go to 'startup disc' in the system preferences, it sees the drive as a bootable drive. When I restart to boot to the drive, I get the 'question mark' flashing that it cannot find an OS, and then boots to the hard drive.
I'm wondering if Western Digital has their own partition on the drive that disc utility would see when I partition/format/image it? Could that be what the computer sees, and tries to boot from instead of my partition/image?
What can I do to make my drive bootable, be it delete the partition I cannot see in disc utility, or create the image in a specific way. Does the fact that I'm having to convert to Firewire 800 to Firewire 400 via a cable make a difference?
Thanks so much.