First, have you created a bootable clone of your external drive? You can use a program such as super duper or carbon copy cloner to do this. For me at least, pressing the right arrow twice does the trick. On Oct 20, 2012, at 10:52 PM, Nicholas Parsons wrote:
> HI List, > > If I have an external USB HD connected to my Mac, and it is the only external > device I have connected, which arrow keys and how many times must I press > them after I have held down the option key at start up? So far I keep > managing to boot to the recovery partition or to my Macintosh HD but never to > my external HD. I'm not sure if this is a problem with my external HD's > connectivity or I'm just missing it each time, so want to try and make sure > I'm doing the right thing. > > And, yes, just to be clear, I do have a bootable duplicate of my Mac on its > very own partition on my external HD. It should be working fine, but I just > want to test it so I can have some peace of mind. > > cheers, > Nic > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
