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Q: New Hard drive won't boot!

I'm trying to upgrade my HD with an HGST 1TB in my MacBook Pro, 15 inch Model A1286.  I installed the new drive into an enclosure, which my computer found, used Super Duper to clone my original drive.  Everything went well and Super Duper indicated no issues and it was a "bootable" drive.  I installed it, fired it up and the Mac won't boot, just the file symbol with a question mark.  It also cannot find the drive when I try to use any other method to restore the drive... Help please...

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on May 29, 2013 10:36 PM

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  • by keybis,

    keybis keybis Aug 4, 2013 8:04 AM in response to PlotinusVeritas
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    Aug 4, 2013 8:04 AM in response to PlotinusVeritas

    I can clone just fine, but I do have to create the partition first, otherwise SuperDuper doesn't know where to copy to. In any case, after I boot from the new drive, I have set it as the boot drive in Sytem Preferences. Then I shut down, put the new drive in the MBP and power on and I get nada, can't boot.

     

    Then I took it out again, hooked it up externally via USB and voila, I can boot to it.

  • by PlotinusVeritas,

    PlotinusVeritas PlotinusVeritas Aug 4, 2013 8:28 AM in response to keybis
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    Aug 4, 2013 8:28 AM in response to keybis

    no,  in fact you do not have to partition it.   thats incorrect

  • by keybis,

    keybis keybis Aug 4, 2013 9:00 AM in response to PlotinusVeritas
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    Aug 4, 2013 9:00 AM in response to PlotinusVeritas

    Well, I'm stuck. At this point I have a bootable clone I made with Carbon Copy Cloner. It boots from USB, not internally despite what I choose as the startup disk....ugh.

  • by Courcoul,

    Courcoul Aug 4, 2013 10:44 AM in response to keybis
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    Aug 4, 2013 10:44 AM in response to keybis

    Is the new drive in GUID partition scheme?

  • by Fred1956,

    Fred1956 Fred1956 Aug 4, 2013 12:15 PM in response to keybis
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    Aug 4, 2013 12:15 PM in response to keybis

    Our techs use a product named Scannerz for testing systems. They had a problem like yours and they contacted the people that make Scannerz and they told them their were a fair number of incompatilities and problems with the earlier versions of ML, as well as device drivers for external devices.

     

    You might wnat to boot from ML in the external drive, upgrade it to 10.8.4, then try again.

  • by PlotinusVeritas,

    PlotinusVeritas PlotinusVeritas Aug 4, 2013 12:49 PM in response to keybis
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    Aug 4, 2013 12:49 PM in response to keybis

    Ever think to keep it simple?  

    THOUSANDS of people on older Macs have used Superduper, CLONED THE INTERNAL HD,.........put in the clone, no worries. 

    Ive personally done it countless times, Ive never partitioned anything ever.  Did i loose my partitioned backup?

     

    YES, however since i have Time machine backups, AND a backup clone, having the boot partition is irrelevant.

     

    The computer Im typing on now has a 1TB in it, I never partitioned it, just did a super-duper HD CLONE.

    Give super-duper APP a try and don’t partition anything, clone your older HD to the 1TB external.

     

    Keep it simple,... its worked endlessly for everyone else on earth, it should for you as well.

  • by MrJavaDeveloper,

    MrJavaDeveloper MrJavaDeveloper Aug 4, 2013 4:57 PM in response to keybis
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    Aug 4, 2013 4:57 PM in response to keybis

    If you put a new hard drive into a system, you may need to reset the NVRAM in order for the system to recognize it. Here are the instructions...you'll see comments in it about identifying the startup disk:

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

     

    A clone is a clone and it shouldn't make a difference which product it's done with.

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