You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!

When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.

Looks like no one’s replied in a while. To start the conversation again, simply ask a new question.

MacBook HHD to SSD swap issue

Hi all, I am having a problem with installing a new SSD into my old MacBook Pro (mid-2012). Got it formatted and partitioned( Mac-Journaled). Transferred all the files to a new drive from the old one. Installed it, but no booting. “Question file folder” is on the screen. I’ve opened a disk utility in a recovery mode. SSD and a data disk are shown there. But when I go to a startup disk menu it doesn’t show any disks I can choose from. After shutdown and restart the same “question mark” is appearing on the screen. What puzzles me is that I am able to boot and load OS X with the same SSD if use it as an external drive. Has anyone experienced similar issue? Has anyone found a solution? Appreciate if you can share your experience in resolving it? Thank you

MacBook Pro

Posted on Aug 4, 2021 9:45 AM

Top-ranking reply

Jeff_W.

Community Specialist

Posted on Aug 5, 2021 6:45 AM

Hello Macomplicated,

Thanks for reaching out through the Apple Support Communities about your Mac booting to a question mark.

Does that still continue after following the steps from this article? If your Mac starts up to a question mark

If so, you’ll want to reach out to Apple Support so they can look into this further: Contact Apple Support

Hopefully that puts you on the path to getting this addressed.

Take care.

View in context

MacBook HHD to SSD swap issue

Similar questions