What is meant by "an external hard drive can boot OS X"?

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What is meant by "an external hard drive can boot OS X"?

I know the OS X is Apple's current operating system, I use it.
But don't understand the reference to the external hard drive.
(I use one of those also).

2006-07-28 06:29:14 · 3 answers · asked by TC 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons

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it means you can run the OS X operating system from an external hard drive by installing the OS on the external hard drive, and booting from it.

2006-07-28 06:38:44 · answer #1 · answered by Mike-Q 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋

external hard drives are the partitions i think

2006-07-28 13:34:01 · answer #2 · answered by Spidy_haq 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Usually this is a firewire drive properly set up for it.

2006-07-31 22:57:59 · answer #3 · answered by Albert F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋