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Switching the boot drive (I want to boot from the optibay) How can this be done?

Kingcodez

Kingcodez

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I run SSD/HDD, my HDD in the optibay is broken, I stuck it in a external and it makes finder freeze, it got bumped around too much so I want to put a new one back in the 'correct place' for a spinner, and stick the SSD in the optibay.

(I figure the extra 2% of shock protection offered by the orange rubber circle things is worth the trouble of moving everything).

I am also going to buy a WD 3 platter 1TB laptop drive, and I read that they fit fine in the regular spot in MBP's (I'm going to open and measure in a min.)

Anyways, there's no BIOS, only EFI, so how to I pick what drive to boot from? with 10.6 is it as simple as holding option down on boot, and picking my 'OSX' HDD, and then it will auto boot from that until I specify otherwise? (I ask because before 10.6 people on here were always talking about how to switch boot drives.)
 
im not sure about the first part or ur message, but i believe you change the bootup disk in osx system preferences, and start up disk
 
Kingcodez said:
I run SSD/HDD, my HDD in the optibay is broken, I stuck it in a external and it makes finder freeze, it got bumped around too much so I want to put a new one back in the 'correct place' for a spinner, and stick the SSD in the optibay.

(I figure the extra 2% of shock protection offered by the orange rubber circle things is worth the trouble of moving everything).

I am also going to buy a WD 3 platter 1TB laptop drive, and I read that they fit fine in the regular spot in MBP's (I'm going to open and measure in a min.)

Anyways, there's no BIOS, only EFI, so how to I pick what drive to boot from? with 10.6 is it as simple as holding option down on boot, and picking my 'OSX' HDD, and then it will auto boot from that until I specify otherwise? (I ask because before 10.6 people on here were always talking about how to switch boot drives.)
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Hey I am in a similar situation. Did you find a solution. I don;t wish to tinker too much as things can go wrong. But an SSD in the Optibay and booting from that with sleep working perfectly would be awesome.
 
in system preferences goto "startup disk" and select no black magic required ... its a mac for gods sake... boooomm it just works...

if that fails options at boot and select... should never have to restart except for OS updates ... sleep is your friend.. :)
 
nobackup said:
in system preferences goto "startup disk" and select no black magic required ... its a mac for gods sake... boooomm it just works...

if that fails options at boot and select... should never have to restart except for OS updates ... sleep is your friend.. :)
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^That's the thing you need to do. By the way, the 1TB WD suits for all unibody MBPs and pre-unibody 17"s
 
nobackup said:
in system preferences goto "startup disk" and select no black magic required ... its a mac for gods sake... boooomm it just works...

if that fails options at boot and select... should never have to restart except for OS updates ... sleep is your friend.. :)
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I couldn't find no black magic required anyway. I am joking. I know how to select my boot drive, the problem is sleep issues with the SSD being in the Optibay enclosure.
Like in this instance http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=576116

There are plenty of these instances, that's what I am referring to.
 
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