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Q: What's the latest model macbook I can put the hdd from an A1342 in?

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Posted on Oct 30, 2015 11:29 PM

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Darcy.Williams3

Q: What's the latest model macbook I can put the hdd from an A1342 in?

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  • by Mike Sombrio,

    Mike Sombrio Mike Sombrio Oct 31, 2015 4:54 AM in response to Darcy.Williams3
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    Oct 31, 2015 4:54 AM in response to Darcy.Williams3

    The last model Macbook to use a spinning hard drive is the mid 2010 which is an A1342.  It's not really clear what you're trying to accomplish though, perhaps a little more information.

  • by Darcy.Williams3,

    Darcy.Williams3 Darcy.Williams3 Oct 31, 2015 5:57 PM in response to Mike Sombrio
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    Oct 31, 2015 5:57 PM in response to Mike Sombrio

    Hi Mike - thanks for the reply.

    My old Macbook has been dropped and doesn't turn on, but, of course, there's lots of data I wish to recover.

    There are more recent Macbooks for sale online, and I'm keen to buy as recent as possible, take the hdd out of that, and slot the older hdd in. The model this is is the A1342, which apple suggests is late 2009, and as the question states, I was wondering how recent through the macbook range  I can go before it won't be a straight port anymore.

     

    Hope that extra info helps.

     

    Darce.

  • by Mike Sombrio,

    Mike Sombrio Mike Sombrio Oct 31, 2015 6:53 PM in response to Darcy.Williams3
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    Oct 31, 2015 6:53 PM in response to Darcy.Williams3

    You can take the hard drive out of the broken macbook, put it in an external enclosure and migrate all of your data to even the newest mac using Migration Assistant Move your content to a new Mac - Apple Support