- Update: The MacBook now turns on automatically once it is plugged in, so it makes things much easier. I connect my MacBook Pro to my BenQ monitor via the USB-C port with power delivery, the MacBook will power on when I turn on the monitor. The only caveat is that it doesn't detect Bluetooth devices during startup, so you need to use a wired.
- Go to System Preferences Startup Disk. Click the lock and enter your password to change the settings. Select your USB drive from the list and click Restart. The second method is to turn on your computer and hold down the Option key.
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If you're asked to insert a USB drive, plug your USB flash drive into your Mac. Boot Camp Assistant will use it to create a bootable USB drive for Windows installation. When Boot Camp Assistant asks you to set the size of the Windows partition, remember the minimum storage-space requirements in the previous section. Set a partition size that.
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Can the MacBook Pro boot from an external Firewire or USB drive?
Apple's Support Site simply says 'Don't Start Up from an External USB Device' as 'under Mac OS X, Apple does not support starting up from USB devices'. Apple's Knowledge Base also states that 'Mac OS X installation discs that came with a PowerPC processor-based Mac won't work with an Intel processor-based Mac, and vice-versa, even if both Macs came with the same version of Mac OS X.'
Likewise, prior to the release of the MacBook Pro, readers of the MacInTouch website wrote that they were told by Apple representatives that the Intel-based Macs can boot from external Firewire '400' hard drives but not from USB 2.0 hard drives.
In particular, a reader by the name of Daniel Fazekas noted that the hard drive 'must be reformatted in a new partition format specific to Intel-based Macs called GUID Partition Table (GPT). This is an option you can select in the Disk Utility software [installed on these systems].'
He continues to note that 'disks using the Apple Partition Map (APM) scheme could be read. . . on Intel-based Macs, but [cannot be used as boot drives]. Similarly, drives reformatted to use GPT won't boot on PowerPC-based Macs, and will only be readable on Macs running MacOS X 10.4 Tiger.'
However, Rentzsch, an author for the respected TidBits publication, has reported that you also can boot from an external USB drive.
In a nutshell, Intel-based systems, like the MacBook Pro, can boot from external Firewire drives, and can boot from external USB drives as well, provided that the drive is formatted appropriately (GPT) and a compatible version of MacOS X is installed. Free software synths for mac. Nevertheless, as Apple does not appear officially to support booting from non-Firewire external drives using MacOS X, it probably is wise to use Firewire.
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