Can I boot my Mac from this? I have two other drives that do not support booting and don't want to buy another that can't.
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You *should* be able to provided you set it up that way. Format it Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and, partition is with the GUID Partition Scheme. After that, use CarbonCopyCloner or your other favorite copy SW to clone your entire system to the external drive. You can boot by either choosing the external drive in System Preferences &gt; Startup Disk or simply hit the Option key during boot up as that will show you the bootable disks available - choose the external drive. It may be possible to do a clean install onto the Thunderbolt drive by choosing it during a fresh system install but you'd need to have Mavericks or Mountain Lion on a Thumb drive or something and as you install, choose the Thunderbolt drive as your destination drive during install (bypass the internal Mac drive completely).
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Not sure about booting to it but I do actually have mine partitioned 70/30 split with Mac journaled and NTFS as I use encryption on both partitions. I don't know on the bootable front as I use mine as a file mule and time machine. As a side not I will say this drive is far far heavier than it needs to be. Writing and read speeds are blazing fast but I feel like it's lined with lead.
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Just to throw in my 2 cents here, the Disk Utility reformat mentioned above in Andrew's post is spot-on. The drive so far as been great to use. However, I'm running Mac 10.5.6 and it was immediately recognized when I first plugged it in: it mounted and Time Machine asked if I wanted to use it for backups... I did the reformatting anyway as the apps on board are no use to a Mac owner. BTW, the $99 price was unbelievable! Fingers crossed on reliability, Yikesboy
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I would say yes. I have multiple WD Hard drives attached to multiple macs with different Operating Systems on them... the OS really doesn't care what OS you have, so I would say you are good to go! Enjoy!! WD makes great products and you will be very happy with your purchase like I was! - Jeremy in TX www.MyMailBoxFreedom.com
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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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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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you can get any external drive ..... for it to work properly on a mac the first thing you will have to do is format it to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" then every thing will go smooth if you are using a mac only.
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I don't have a MAC, but to my knowledge this is Sata and they all provide info via the Sata cables.. othern than that this drive is barebones.
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I don't have a MacBook (but I have used macs in the past and like the ability to just plug something in and have it work - but would encourage you to look elsewhere for a good external USB drive - the one I got was a POS!
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Yes. If you have not replaced a drive on a mac before, you may want to take a look at this or other tutorials first to make sure you have the right tools on hand, and how to back up your old HD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfiGF_pjqvM
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Yes you can, just make sure to install drivers if your Mac don't have them installed.
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You can only have one drive hooked up at a a time. I don't think you can use it to hook up a boot drive. I haven't tried it though.
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Are you using it for the primary boot drive, as in installing MAC Leopard to the drive, or just using it as a USB flash drive to store files and stuff to? For the former I have no reason to believe that I would not work however I have only tried it with Linux, not saying much cause Linux can be installed on anything. As for the later case the file system that the drive is formatted to is what makes the difference, unless Apple has some global external memory limit that I don't know about.That's a long answer to say there is not a reasonable reason that it would not work.
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I did not use the two drives as a bootable drive but as an external drive in a NexStar external drive holder.Pnce they were formatted they acted exactly like a regular drive which is why I bought a second one.
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Hey, I have the same macbook. mines can't be rebooted due to failure of ssd... just wondering if you had already tried this or had tried others that worked?
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Hi, I actually when I bought it I did not check its Mac supported, whereas I wanted to use it on Windows and Linux.So I repartitioned it with NTFS to use on these OSes. But it had HSpace partition, so it is compatible with all Macs
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No. This macBook pro uses IDE type of drive. SATA interfacewill not work.Mike