Thread: MBP out for service; booting spare computer from SD FW disk
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Old 07-25-2008, 07:34 AM
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That's right, Option+Boot, select the FireWire disk and restore as explained before.

As far as "why" is GUID encouraged and APM discouraged... GUID is more modern, support BootCamp, partition resizing, etc. No doubt there are other reasons, but I've never seen a complete list.
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