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Connecting a Bootable External hard Drive

I am looking to add a bootable hard drvie to my macbook pro (13" retina display early 2015 model). I have read that bootable disks must be connected to firewire but the macbook does not have a firewire port. Is it possible to boot from a disk connected by Thunderbolt? (or a firewire connected device through firewire - thunderbolt adaptor)? Thanks for any help anyone can give.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Sep 10, 2020 12:05 AM

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Posted on Sep 10, 2020 12:34 AM

Hi,

As far as I know, you can boot from the external bootable drive which is connected Thunderbolt port.


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Connecting a Bootable External hard Drive

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