![]() ![]() T ? brings up Firewire logo (wants Firewire drive). Hold c until you see the apple, and then immediately release that and hold apple and v until you get text - works Alternatively you can press and hold the Alt key to get the Power Mac's boot menu. ![]() If your Power Mac doesn't boot or it has already booted another operating system, reboot and press and hold the 'c' key immediately after the welcome chime. Here's what I have tried on an old PowerBook G4 Titanium Model A1025: ![]() How can I boot to my USB thumbdrive? I'm apparently not very good at using Google because I did try, but I found links on how to boot to OS X from a USB drive.īut once again, that only works if the flash-drive is formatted correctlyĮdit: wait, isn't "c" to boot directly into a CD? i thought it was a different button for usbĮither way, if you have set up the flash-drive correctly it should show on the list menu when you hold alt/option at boot If I select Windows to boot to, it boots to Windows. It gives me the option to boot to the OS X recovery partition, OS X, or Windows - but not my USB thumbdrive. I have tried holding "Option" when the computer turns on. So, I would like to try booting to the Kaspersky Rescue Disk and see if it finds anything the Windows install missed. I AM NOT stupid enough to fall for a phishing attempt. However, I suspect either my OS X Lion install or my Windows install has a virus because a couple weeks back someone got into my Hotmail account and sent out spam emails. I have Kaspersky 2012 installed on my Windows drive and it is fully up-to-date. ![]() I created a bootable USB thumbdrive with a Linux distro on it (the Kaspersky antivirus rescue disk) so I can scan my Windows partition for viruses. ![]()
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