Change the Mac Startup Drive on Boot

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<p>A Macs startup drive can be changed during system boot by <strong>holding down the OPTION key</strong>, this will bring up the boot drive manager. Selecting a boot drive from this menu will not change your default drive, this is a one-time only choice of which drive to start from.</p>

<p>I use this to change my boot OS from Mac OS X 10.6 to 10.7, but I set my default startup drive to 10.6 for stability reasons. You can read how I <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/12/how-to-install-dual-boot-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-and-10-6-snow-leopard/">setup a dual boot Lion & Snow Leopard installation</a> for more on this.</p>

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