[X4U] Booting from external backup drive

[Linda]

On 10/13/07 9:22 AM, Jack Corcoran wrote:

> The backup procedure works faultlessly.  However, I am unable to boot from
> the Maxtor altho it was my impression that when using Firewire this was
> supposedly possible.

Most backup programs have an option you must activate to create bootable
backups. Otherwise the data is transferred but the backup isn't one you can
boot from.

You should be able to boot from a FireWire disk, but there has to be a
*bootable* system on the disk to do so.