yea, I can't boot either. Recently bought an open box 1tb WD mybook studio (all connections) and imaged my mac pro install disc on it. Mac OS actually gave me a message that it cannot boot from the disk. It's ten times faster to reinstall from a FireWire drive than from optical disk. Luckily I have an older different brand that does it fine. It really sucks though.
I always used to be able to boot from my MyBook over firewire 400. I used SuperDuper though.
Also: I say used to be able to because my sister sent that drive flying off my desk whilst it was on. The drive didn't like that... neither did the MacBook which followed close behind.
Turns out, you can boot from any WD drives. They come with a partition map of Apple Partition Map which is "To use the disk to start up a PowerPC-based Mac, or to use the disk as a non-startup disk with any Mac." but I changed it to GUID Partition Table which says "To use the disk to start up an Intel-based Mac, or use the disk as a non-startup disk with any Mac with Mac OS X version 10.4 or later."
Good to know. I got both and had issues with my Intel since it is formatted as an APM and not a GPT.
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yea, I can't boot either. Recently bought an open box 1tb WD mybook studio (all connections) and imaged my mac pro install disc on it. Mac OS actually gave me a message that it cannot boot from the disk. It's ten times faster to reinstall from a FireWire drive than from optical disk. Luckily I have an older different brand that does it fine. It really sucks though.
Did WD change something then?
I always used to be able to boot from my MyBook over firewire 400. I used SuperDuper though.
Also: I say used to be able to because my sister sent that drive flying off my desk whilst it was on. The drive didn't like that... neither did the MacBook which followed close behind.
@matt
bet you wish there was a magwire/firesafe to go w/ your magsafe
Turns out, you can boot from any WD drives. They come with a partition map of Apple Partition Map which is "To use the disk to start up a PowerPC-based Mac, or to use the disk as a non-startup disk with any Mac." but I changed it to GUID Partition Table which says "To use the disk to start up an Intel-based Mac, or use the disk as a non-startup disk with any Mac with Mac OS X version 10.4 or later."
Good to know. I got both and had issues with my Intel since it is formatted as an APM and not a GPT.