• Apple OS X

  can’t boot from DW disk

  Posted by Velma on August 5, 2005 at 12:29 pm

  Here’s the entire story, or most of it:

  CCC will not copy my G5 system. I get this long, long error message. I asked in the CCC forum about it, and one of the things they said do was to run DW. I wasn’t sure if they meant on my source (osX system) or my target (OWC Mercury On-The-Go FireWire Portable).

  So I ran DW on the target and it fixed a couple of things. But I can’t get my G5 to boot up from the disk to run it there. I hold down the C key, but it just boots up into osX.

  G5 2 ghz
  2 gig ram
  os 10.3.8

  Any ideas why it won’t boot up from DW disk? Or how to get it to do so?

  thanks…velma

  Velma replied 20 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

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  Mark Sloan

  August 5, 2005 at 11:57 pm

  Well, once your system boots up, choose the DW disk as your Boot disk in the System Preferences. That should make sure it works.
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  Velma

  August 6, 2005 at 10:44 am

  Never even thought of that! But someone told me that this issue is addressed on the DW website.They said in some newer machines, the DW3 disc won’t work and I need to get a newer disc. Think I’ll give that a try.

  thanks anyway…
  velma

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