Is it possible to boot from an external hard drive?

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  1. crazycat, Nov 26, 2007

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    When i got Leopard before installing it on MacPro i decided to upgrade the hard drive as well. I pulled out the 500GB internal one and replaced it with a 1TB internal Hitachi. The old hard drive now sits in an external enclosure, the problem is i forgot to de-authorize my iTunes account on it and i do not want it to take up once out of the five slots i have.

    Is it possible to use a laptop or a desktop to boot using that external hard drive and de-authorize the computer?
     
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  2. .mark., Nov 26, 2007

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    on my macbook pro, this works - connect the external drive, restart the computer and as it starts hold down the option key. A list of bootable drives should then be shown to you so just click your old drive.
     
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  3. xUKHCx, Nov 26, 2007

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    yes it is possible see above,

    Curious as to why you didn't just move that drive to another bay in the Mac Pro.
     
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  4. DoFoT9, Nov 26, 2007

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    yes i 2nd that, it would seem the way to do it. unless u want to keep it away from the computer to prevent data loss???

    wish i had a hitachi 1tb tho... wow those things are good
     
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  5. crazycat, Nov 26, 2007

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    Thanks for the response, i would have tested that myself before posting but the hard drive is located far from me. Thanks again.
     
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  6. eb6, Nov 26, 2007

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    You can also "de authorize all computers" through itunes and then just "re authorize" the ones you want. Google it.
     
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  7. .mark., Nov 26, 2007

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    i thought i read somewhere you can only "de authorize all" when you have 5 computers authorized?
     
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