Can this drive be configured as bootable?
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YES, IT AUTOMATICALLY BOOTS UP WHEN YOU TURN ON YOUR PC OR YOUR MAC NO PROBLEMS THAT IS WHY I HAVE 5 of them 3 macs and 2 sony. Hope this help you out ..
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Hi, I'm not 100% certain but if I remember correctly I did use it as a clone at one point to backup OS10.8.6 before upgrading to 10.9 Mavericks and did boot from this Seagate via Thunderbolt. I hope I'm not misleading you though because there were a lot of other external drives floating around this same time, but quite sure.
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It would have been helpful if you had described what you intend to do. Clone what, exactly, would be a good start. And do you have any extra hardware available, such as an unused HDD that could be used for temporary storage?
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Backup your vital files, and do a clean install. Aka... boot from the server disc, format the drive, and use it as a server os, not a workstation. Installing over something is not really a viable path, in my humble opinion. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/install-configure-2.aspx
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Depends on what makes the drive not accessible. If the drive is not accessible (not booting up) because of bad Windows files, then perhaps you can access other files that may be alright... If the drive has internal hardware or sector damage then probably not...
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If you are trying to ask if you can turn it into a boot drive where you can load OS's from then yes you can. You will have to download specific software that will wipe the drive and then install the OS onto the drive to be installed on your computer.
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Yes, it is compatible, although you wouldn't reach this drive's max potential.
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I don't believe it is possible as the footprint of the SSD drive is different from that of a SATA drive..
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I think a better option would be to set the 256GB as the boot/work drive and setting an external drive or Raid setup as storage.
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All flash drives are bootable as long as you write the bootable image into it using software such as UltraISO, etc.
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Yes you can, you can buy a new SLIM HDD laptop drive and change it yourself, carefully and remember that by doing that you are probably voiding your warranty
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Windows 7 "properties" of the drive says you can. I haven't tried it as I don't use readyboost. But I don't think it suggests it if it's not willing to use it.
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pretty sure the answer is yes. the mimiting factor isn't necessarily the hardware, but snow leopard. Instructions for boot from a thumb drive are here:http://www.maketecheasier.com/create-mac-snow-leopard-usb-installer-disk/the HD should also work.
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I think so, as you won't be using is as the boot drive. You should.be able to access any good files.
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Yes. It's easy to setup since the drive operates independently from either Windows or Mac.
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Yes they can be bootable. I have all loaded with various Linux distributions on them.
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Yes you should be able to do this using something like Clonezilla or Accronis I believe. However, if you are cloning your main drive to the external, you will not be able to use it during that time of course.
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no just follow instructions, put it on drive turn off pc and back on, select boot from disk