I am currently running Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard on my late 2010 Macbook Pro. I am perfectly fine with running Snow Leopard at present, but I feel I may be missing out on features or indeed updates to the Apple Operating System that maybe being provided to later versions of OS X ie Lion or Mountain Lion, that are not available or being provided to Snow Leopard. Someone told me that Snow Leopard is no longer officially supported by Apple anymore (whether this is true or not, I don't honestly know).
Being lets says a Mac novice, I am apprehensive of upgrading from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion outright on my Macbook Pro, however I have been told there are a number of other ways to utilise both OS Xes on my computer, without having to forgo one OS X (in my case Snow Leopard).
The one method that interests me is installing & running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion from an appropriate external hard drive.
I would therefore appreciate step by step guidance if possible on how to install & run OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion from an external hard drive onto my Snow Leopard Macbook Pro.
Best Answer
Format and Installation
Booting to External Drive
Moving back to HDD instance
From here on out Hold Option/Alt on boot-up and you will be prompted with a selection screen for which disk you want to boot from
Hope that helps