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I have removed a HDD from a broken MacBook,
I need to boot this HDD on a Dell OptiPlex, is this at all possible?
Hello,
I have got my self in a rather awkward situation.
I am a final year Computer Science student and I am working on a professional project.
Unfortunately the MacBook pro I was using to work on this project has decided to die on me.
My project is OSX dependant, plus I want to save my self the utter ball ache of reinstalling of the software.
I removed the HDD from the MacBook and I have also purchased a SATA to USB converter.
This works great I am able to access my files on other OSX machines, however I cannot boot from this drive on these Machines because the University require Admin permission to do soo.. alas I'm in a pickle.
I have been given use of a Dell OptiPlex, I also have a custom built PC at home (I would rather use the Dell).
I am just wondering if it is at all Possible to run OSX on this Dell OptiPlex and continue with my project...
I tried today by simply plugging the HDD using the USB to SATA converter however the Dell does not recognise the HDD as a bootable device.
I have seen guides using a USB partition to install OSX and then I'm thinking I can just select my HDD as a boot drive once I have OSX running from the USB?
Please help?
thanks
I have removed a HDD from a broken MacBook,
I need to boot this HDD on a Dell OptiPlex, is this at all possible?
Hello,
I have got my self in a rather awkward situation.
I am a final year Computer Science student and I am working on a professional project.
Unfortunately the MacBook pro I was using to work on this project has decided to die on me.
My project is OSX dependant, plus I want to save my self the utter ball ache of reinstalling of the software.
I removed the HDD from the MacBook and I have also purchased a SATA to USB converter.
This works great I am able to access my files on other OSX machines, however I cannot boot from this drive on these Machines because the University require Admin permission to do soo.. alas I'm in a pickle.
I have been given use of a Dell OptiPlex, I also have a custom built PC at home (I would rather use the Dell).
I am just wondering if it is at all Possible to run OSX on this Dell OptiPlex and continue with my project...
I tried today by simply plugging the HDD using the USB to SATA converter however the Dell does not recognise the HDD as a bootable device.
I have seen guides using a USB partition to install OSX and then I'm thinking I can just select my HDD as a boot drive once I have OSX running from the USB?
Please help?
thanks