- Can you use a seagate external hard drive for both windows and mac install#
- Can you use a seagate external hard drive for both windows and mac pro#
- Can you use a seagate external hard drive for both windows and mac software#
I could set up the external drive with Hirens or PEBart, but both require wiping the drive. I believe it is possible, especially for one well versed in DOS and boot procedures. Alas, that rubber tree fell, along with the 137 GB drive limitations. Prior to 2005, the stated line of thinking was you boot by hard drive, you boot by CD, or you boot from a floppy disk, but no way can one use a USB flash drive, let alone partition that device. You have a record player and change records for a different music collection.
My original project is to plan for a disaster recovery, but why stop there? If one could boot and run a computer from an external drive you could have multiple operating systems, one per drive, and have everything in that computer at your disposal….printers, scanners, audio systems, TIVO management, or a whole video/architectural system depending on what drive you boot from. If one can maneuver a USB stick to boot a Windows computer, or if one can figure out a means to partition a USB stick and treat it as a hard drive in the Device Manager, why can’t a USB hard drive be maneuvered to do the same thing?
Can you use a seagate external hard drive for both windows and mac install#
I could easily install a second drive cloned to the C drive but what fun would that be? Is this the approach to use, or am I mixing apples with oranges and doomed to fry something? It is a guide in the guide forum.actually a post to a link lancelhoff, multi-partition USB flash drive in windows. In my readings of boot problems on this site, I noticed a topic about multiple partitioning of a stick, as well as fooling the DOS into thinking the stick was an actual internal hard drive, thus assigning drive letters for the primary, and remaining volume. Obviously I don’t understand this stuff or I could fix it myself. I assume it lacks either the boot ini files that the sticks need, or that the USB recognition function for a hard drive come later in the boot sequence and thus is not recognized. The USB drive won’t boot after the BIOS has been changed to USB device, priority 1 in the boot file. The USB drive works as a duplicate storage device with all files and information that the SATA drive holds, when one does a normal boot. I don’t want to just backup files, but all programs, drivers, and the same OS. The reality is to have a cloned external hard drive that could be used to boot a computer and clone a new internal hard drive if the original SATA drive had a mechanical malfunction.
Can you use a seagate external hard drive for both windows and mac software#
I used the Seagate software to clone the C SATA drive to this USB drive (NTFS). My goal is to make a stand-a-lone Seagate FreeAgent USB (self powered) external drive, a working replacement "main drive (0)" for my computer with it’s own operating system I’m Scotch/Irish/German with no desire to conquer the world, drink every Pub dry, and do it for little or no money, but I am stubborn, hard-headed, and tenacious to a fault.
I have read all the posts for making a bootable flash drive (stick) and made both a Hirens bootable stick (three different sticks, Sandisk 4GB, Kingston 1 GB, and a generic 16GB) and a BartPE bootable CD disk….my eyes bled, and the hammering base drum in my head has subsided.
I have painfully copied all programs, files, and added the peripheral hardware (printer, scanner, modems) to make this a duplicate replacement computer system with an addition monitor.
Can you use a seagate external hard drive for both windows and mac pro#
I have a Dell GX630, 3.2 GHz computer with Windows XP Pro SP3 that is replacing my older 700MHz machine. In that regard, I will claim ignorance with a smidgen of knowledge-just so you know who you are dealing with and will correspondingly, dumb down your answers to my level (slightly smarter than a pile of rocks when it comes to absorbing this type of information). I have a technical background (hardware control systems), but am by no means a threat to any IT guy who actually understands DOS (Greek), or different OS platforms.
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