WTB External Hard Drive

[βeta]

So, My moms laptop HDD is so full that the computer won't even boot anymore. All I really need is another 50gb of space. I'm looking for old crappy cheap external harddrives that are OSX compatible!

 

[epicelite]

"So full it won't boot"

UNPOSSIBLE!

There is some other problem. I am no expert but I am pretty sure it doesn't need to write anything when booting.

PROTIP:
Just plug the drive into your computer and delete some stuff.

 

[βeta]

It's the internal drive that's full. I've deleted everything that isn't essential already. Basically, the hard drive is no longer useful, and I want to boot off of an external so I can back up the stuff on it before it gets worse.

 

[epicelite]

Get a external enclosure and put that full drive in in, back it up to your working on.

 

[βeta]

Or I could just get an external hard drive.

 

[epicelite]

No, no. That is a horrible idea!

What you could do it get a external hard drive! YEAH THAT SHOULD WORK!

 

[βeta]

 

[snowpenguin]

I'm pretty sure I heard that OSX couldn't be booted from a external drive... Maybe that was just USB or something. I don't know, but I would check first if I was you.

 

[βeta]

ITT: Everyone assumes the OP doesn't know what he's doing.


I've done it off if FireWire before. Doing it off of USB is easy. You could have Googled it you know.