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1. #MAC PRO EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION HOW TO#
2. #MAC PRO EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION INSTALL#

Once Disk Utility opens, select the External Hard Drive you’d like to install Snow Leopard onto and then Select Partition.Select Utility from the Menu Bar to access Disk Utility. The External Hard Drive won’t currently be an option for installation so we’ll need to use Disk Utility to make some configuration changes.After your computer restarts continue through the introduction and agreement pages.Click the restart button to start the installation process Open system preferences from the menu bar, select start up disks and then the OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Install DVD.Insert the OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD into your Mac, or boot into the USB Snow Leopard Installation we described in an earlier post.This 128 GB USB Flash Drive can service just as well as a normal External Hard Drive, and may even run a bit faster than your typical HD. In fact, if you have a large enough USB flash drive, you can use these same steps to install Snow Leopard on to it.

The steps to install Snow Leopard onto an external hard drive are very similar to the steps of booting OS X from a USB drive. Installing OS X Snow Leopard on an External Hard Drive

#MAC PRO EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION HOW TO#

Now we’ll explain the steps on how to install snow leopard onto an External Hard Drive so users can test out the new OS X 10.6 without risking the potential negative impacts of an upgrade on their Leopard Installation.

The worst thing to experience is when your “upgrade” becomes a “downgrade” because none of your data is accessible or software available.Īpple recently released Snow Leopard and we walked readers through how to install snow leopard from a USB Drive. When new versions of an operating system are released, its not uncommon to want to test out how the new software will work with your hardware, software, and data.