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I have replaced the hard drive in my MacBook Pro with a Western Digital ssd. When I attempt to update to Catalina I get a message that the disk is incompatible with APFS.
Is there a way round this? If the WD drive is incompatible, is there an alternative I can purchase?
Hi,
I suppose your WD SSD is formatted Mac OS Extended journaled.
You need to reformat the drive as APFS.
Booting in Recovery mode, then reformat WD SSD as APFS then install Catalina after backup data.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904
Hi,
I suppose your WD SSD is formatted Mac OS Extended journaled.
You need to reformat the drive as APFS.
Booting in Recovery mode, then reformat WD SSD as APFS then install Catalina after backup data.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904
Thanks. I’m getting there. I put the old HD back, updated that to Catalina, then tried to copy back onto the ssd. Unfortunately the space on the disk has increased enormously and now not enough space on the ssd. I’ve now reformatted the ssd as APFS and am deleting files on the old HD. The macbook is very slow with the old HD so everything takes hours. But I am getting there. Thanks again
You can buy a case for your old HD and then plug it in as an external drive and copy files.
I used ORICO 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool-free External Hard Drive Enclosure for 2.5" SATA III HDD and SSD
Hi,
You can get clone environment drive with using SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner. Source drive is HDD, target drive is SSD.
https://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
As Roger Blunder told, you can get external 2.5inch USB drive enclosure.
HI,
My issue is retrieving the data from this drive and I can't risk formatting it. I replaced my internal hard drive but I need to access the files from the previous hard drive.
catalina upgrade with WD SSD
