Comments on: Installing Snow Leopard onto an External Hard Drive

By: upgrading to Lion – the golden rules! | Phil Stokes

upgrading to Lion – the golden rules! | Phil Stokes — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:14:37 +0000

[...] of these programs in your daily use, you’re going to need to upgrade those too or continue to run Snow Leopard on an external disk. Golden Rule No. 2: Buy an external disk and clone your current system to [...]

By: Sara-deva

Sara-deva — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:02:25 +0000

is that true that there are factory defects in the batch production of macbook pro mid 2010?

By: Sara-deva

Sara-deva — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:00:31 +0000

i have a mac book pro mid 2010 core i5, i install snow lep 10.6.3 on an external…runs smoothly for about 2weeks maybe….then it wont startup…the spinning wheel freezes…and the external hdd also seems not to work when the spiining wheel stuck…what the problem? i uses the snow lep 10.6.3 dvd that came with my macbook, is this the problem here?

because i uses the same dvd and install it on my friend macbook, it works, no freeze, no bugs for about 5months now!
PLEASE HELP

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:16:26 +0000

Create a bootable USB drive first! or a partition of that external HD that has the Snow Leopard install files on it.. Then install from one of those.

By: JMS

JMS — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:40:34 +0000

I have a new MacBook Air, as well as a new Seagate External 500GB HD. I have tried a number of times to boot from the Snow Leopard 10.6 DVD in my external CD/DVD drive, so I could install Snow Leopard to the Seagate drive. It starts up and then, before anything comes up on the screen, the CD drive stops and nothing happens.

Any ideas? Would very much appreciate any and all thoughts.

JMS

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:29:32 +0000

hey the speed of snow leopard on the External hard drive was pretty quick because the hard drive uses the processor on the computer you are running the external HD from because a hard drive doesn't contain a processor

By: Josh D

Josh D — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:32:38 +0000

During step 5, where is the "Select Partition"…I can't seem to find it???

By: bigwhoop@ymail.com

bigwhoop@ymail.com — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:37:05 +0000

After I install Snow Leopard onto an external HD, is there a way to configure things so I can plug it in to a PC and boot it up?

By: Mike see

Mike see — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:51:59 +0000

Iv'e been trying to install SL 10.6.3 onto a new clean internal HDD but the install stalls and says installation failure, unable to install support files. The SL I have is the $29 'upgrade' DVD, is that my problem? Or can I use your external USB method with my SL dvd?

By: kbb

kbb — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:57:53 +0000

sigh – Can you also install*