How to make an external bootable working drive in macOS Ventura

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When something goes wrong with your Mac, it’s a boon to have a separate, external drive that you can work from — but Apple no longer makes that easy…

Apple has taken steps to secure your Mac from bad actors, it’s just a shame it means you have to go through two broad steps to make this work.

Allow your Mac to boot from external drives at all
Prepare a bootable external drive

That first part is crucial, and it is crucial that you do it before you have any problems. For if your Mac won’t startup, you cannot get in to enable booting from an external.

So this is something to do now, while your Mac is running fine. And the way you do it depends on whether you have an Intel-based Mac, or an Apple Silicon one…

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