<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>The possibilities of this are amazing, especially given the ready availability of inexpensive, high-capacity SD cards. I wonder... Can you set up a Boot Camp partition on an SD card?</div><div><br></div><div>This also makes me wonder how long 'till we see SD slots on desktop Macs... I would have LOVED it if my Mini had an SD card slot.<br><br>-- <div>"We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes</div></div><div><br>On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Dave Sevick <<a href="mailto:dave@davesevick.com">dave@davesevick.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; "><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(120, 122, 123); ">Posted 11/10/2009 at 3:24:32pm | by <a href="http://www.maclife.com/user/david_w_martin" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 155, 223); text-decoration: none; ">David W. Martin</a></span></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The latest MacBook Pros and iMacs sport a new port, a Secure Digital (SD) memory card reader. The immediate assumption is that you will use the SD card slot for transferring videos and photos from a camera to the Mac. That's what a majority of users will use it for.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">For the hardcore users out there, Apple decided to give the SD port super powers -- you can use it to build a bootable SD card. That bootable card can then become an awesome tool for performing emergency hard drive repairs, data recovery, recovering deleted files, and much more. This how-to will get you started on building your SD card offering you a few ideas along the way, but potential uses for this SD card are practically unlimited.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><<< clipped >>>></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Full article here :</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_build_bootable_sd_card_rescue_ranger_your_mac_sd_card_slot"><a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_build_bootable_sd_card_rescue_ranger_your_mac_sd_card_slot">http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_build_bootable_sd_card_rescue_ranger_your_mac_sd_card_slot</a></a></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br></div></span>
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