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Can I boot a Mavericks mini from a Tiger backup bootable HD?
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05-29-2014, 06:17 PM
I have a bootable backup of my old iMac which was running Tiger 10.4. The last Tiger update.
I have my new mini running 10.9.3.
Can I attach the bootable backup drive and boot the mini from that drive?

I wanted to ask before just trying it.
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05-29-2014, 06:19 PM
Depends on how new the Mini is. If it's the most recent one, it won't boot.
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05-29-2014, 06:20 PM
No, but trying it won't hurt anything.
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05-29-2014, 06:24 PM
Basically, you can't into a Mac with an OS older than what the Mac shipped with.
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05-29-2014, 06:47 PM
RAMd®d wrote:
Basically, you can't into a Mac with an OS older than what the Mac shipped with.

That is what I was afraid of.

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05-29-2014, 06:49 PM
Don't think it would work because the hardware, and the drivers, are different. The Tiger backup wouldn't have any Mac Mini specific drivers installed, therefore it won't boot.
But then again, I could be talking out of my rear end.
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05-29-2014, 06:55 PM
I have an i5 Mac Mini, Mid 2011 model, that I believe shipped with 10.7. I have a rescue usb drive with 10.6.8 and Disk Warrior that I use as an emergency boot disk that will boot this Mini.

I don't do anything with it other than run Disk Warrior, so I don't know if it's loading the correct drivers for all the hardware, so... YMMV.
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05-29-2014, 09:06 PM
Why do you want to do this? There may be an alternative.
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05-29-2014, 09:16 PM
Speedy wrote:
Why do you want to do this? There may be an alternative.

I was just hoping to be able to easily access some of the information on that drive, if I need it later. I think I can transfer the stuff that has to have the older applications to my MacBook, that still runs Appleworks. I was just hoping to be able to access it directly from the drive rather than having to move the data.

I also have old emails in Entourage, but I have that on the MacBook also, so I can probably move those files over, too. I might see if the MacBook will boot from that drive, since it shipped with Tiger, or earlier, I think.
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05-29-2014, 09:21 PM
Attach the drive, find the data and use it. No need to have that drive boot your Mini.
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