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MAC PRO EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE READ ONLY INSTALL
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Clicking on the Eject tool for the System disk brings a helpful dialog which offers to unmount both System and Data volumes. Once booted from the internal disk again, ejecting the bootable external disk isn’t fault-free. Your M1 Mac will then restart from the selected disk. In the first screen displayed there, rather than select the Options item to proceed to Recovery, select the disk which you want to boot from and click Continue underneath it. Its new equivalent is in the opening of Recovery Mode. M1 Macs lack the old Startup Manager, and holding the Option key during startup does nothing at all. When you want to restart from the internal disk, the Startup Disk pane is your best option. You’ll have to go through the whole process of setting your AppleID to work, negotiating two-factor authentication for this ‘new Mac’, and so on, until you can finally use your external disk fully. With AppleID and current setups, what you now effectively have is not simply another boot disk, but a whole new Mac bar the hardware. This should be relatively rapid, and at the end your Mac will automatically restart into the freshly installed copy of Big Sur on your external disk. Then select the external disk and click Continue.įollow the installation process through to completion.

MAC PRO EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE READ ONLY INSTALL

When it invites you to select the disk on which you want to install Big Sur, if you don’t see your external disk, click on the button to show all available disks. Then open the Install macOS Big Sur app, and proceed.

MAC PRO EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE READ ONLY UPDATE

a copy of the Big Sur 11.1 (or later) installer app, obtained from the App Store via Software Update this procedure appears less reliable in macOS 11.0.1 and when installing macOS 11.0.1, so 11.1 is recommended for both.Ĭonnect your external disk, and if there’s any doubt about whether it has been freshly formatted using APFS without encryption, use Disk Utility to do so before going any further.

Some suggest that if your SSD isn’t Thunderbolt, try connecting it via a USB-A port, although that doesn’t help those with MacBook Air or Pro models

a Thunderbolt 3 SSD, such as a Samsung X5, freshly formatted in APFS (unencrypted) and connected to one of your M1 Mac’s Thunderbolt ports if you only have SATA SSDs which connect via USB-C rather than Thunderbolt, you may be successful, but it seems unlikely.

an M1 Mac if you haven’t got one yet, I’m afraid it’s far too late for Christmas.

Thanks to many comments but no real clues, I’ve now been able to solve this, and here explain how you can do this too. and you'reĭone.Last week I described how I had been unable to get either of my M1 Macs to start up from an external disk. Just get a hard drive formatted as FAT32 and you can plug it into a Mac, get your files and plug it into a PC.

MAC PRO EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE READ ONLY PC

I needed both the Mac and a PC to get the job done. In summary: I was never ab e to get the PC to read from a Mac format HFS drive.

MAC PRO EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE READ ONLY WINDOWS 8

I have transferred all my music, pics, etc to my external drive from the mac and i was able to access and USE those same files on my girl's PC (which is Windows 8 btw). TB of Fat32!! So it was well worth the wait. The format of the external hard drive took 30 hours. it doesn't even install anything on your computer. PC and I searched the net and I was able to download a program called Fat32Formatter. How can i transfer my files from mac to PC? I borrowed my girlfriend's repaired my MacBook Pro which I am using right now. So the Paragon software was a waste of $20 bucks and it resolved nothing.