A few months ago I installed Leopard onto an External HDD to allow me to boot into any intel mac if it had problems booting off it's own HDD. I used it in a troubleshooting way last night to help a friend replace a HDD and reinstall Snow Leopard on his computer. My question is though, do people have a 'troubleshooting' drive like this?
If so, do you just keep an image of the install Disc on it and use the utilities from that? Or do you have a full install ready to boot which is filled with a variety of other apps and software to troubleshoot a poorly mac?
If so what else would you reccomend installing or including on such a disk?
Also if anyone thinks it's just plain paranoid to have this then let me know - I'm interested to hear opinions on this one
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If so, do you just keep an image of the install Disc on it and use the utilities from that? Or do you have a full install ready to boot which is filled with a variety of other apps and software to troubleshoot a poorly mac?
If so what else would you reccomend installing or including on such a disk?
Also if anyone thinks it's just plain paranoid to have this then let me know - I'm interested to hear opinions on this one
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