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But this hint made some things clearer
Authored by: tmerritt on Feb 02, '06 11:53:37AM

This was exactly the problem I've been trying to figure out for a couple of days. I read the Rentzsch article yesterday but it took this hint to make me remember months ago I had formatted the drive with FAT32 in a FW/USB enclosure for use with a PC and my Mac on our home network. I thought I could just erase it (without *partitioning* it) and use it just for backing up my Mac.

So, I erased it and used Disk Utility to restore the Mac onto it... fine. Tried to boot from it... got the gray Apple logo on the white screen for a few seconds, and the the logo would suddenly move lower on the screen a handful of pixels, and the machine would hang without the startup cycling graphic. I'd do a full erase, restore to it again, same thing. Tried it with another Mac at work. Same thing.

Then I read this post. I partitioned it with Apple Partition Scheme, restored to it, and bingo.

Thanks.



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