I have a question about installing an OS to try on a USB hard disk. If I place the ISO on this drive and boot to it, and continue on with the install process, where will it install to? This is important because I do not want to lose all of my Mac files. Thanks in advance!
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Placing the ISO file onto the USB stick will do nothing. You won't be able to boot from a file. Use MRoogle to search for many similar topics (installing OS from USB device).
Also only one Mac OS X installation can be done per partition, so you need another partition to install another Mac OS X installation.
Also only one Mac OS X installation can be done per partition, so you need another partition to install another Mac OS X installation.
Not trying to install OS X again, I just want to install this on the USB HDD without touching my internal. I will MRoogle. Thanks for replying so fast!
If you don't want a clean installation, you can clone your internal HDD to the external HDD via CarbonCopyCloner and SuperDuper.
You cannot boot to an ISO.
If I am following you correctly, you want to install an OS onto a USB Drive.
If that is the case you will need to restore the ISO to some medium. Whether it be an external hard drive, a CD, or DVD.
You would then boot to that medium.
The installer for this OS should give you options. Since I don't know the OS you are wanting to try, I can't comment much further.
If I am following you correctly, you want to install an OS onto a USB Drive.
If that is the case you will need to restore the ISO to some medium. Whether it be an external hard drive, a CD, or DVD.
You would then boot to that medium.
The installer for this OS should give you options. Since I don't know the OS you are wanting to try, I can't comment much further.
That is correct.
I have extracted the contents of the ISO and placed them in the uppermost directory on this hard drive.
I am presuming that the drive is now bootable.
I am trying to install Windows 7. Would this installer allow me to place the new installation onto this drive?
Thank you!
You presume incorrectly. You just have a USB stick with Windows install files. If you have a Windows PC to create the Boot USB from you can use this tool from microsoft and your ISO.
http://images2.store.microsoft.com/prod/clustera/framework/w7udt/1.0/en-us/Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe