How do I "Physically" swap my hard drive from my old mac to my new macbook pro Mid 2012?!
I know how to swap them easily enough but when I do this I turn on the new mac and all I get is a "Circle with a line through it"
Am I missing something? Please help!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Installations have the specific hardware drivers for the configurations of systems. Yuo cannot even use the gray (system specific) install diss from on eSL system to re-install another unless the hardware matches exactly.
Your old drive/installation expects different hardware, including graphics cards.
The physical disk is reusable, but the OX installed on it is not as compatible with the new hardware.
How can I go about whiping the disk clean back to the day I bought it?
Would that theoretically work when I then install it onto my new mac?
Then I can use time machine to restore to the way it was.
You can buy an external enclosure for the old drive such as this one from macsales.com that I bought: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/FWU3ES2HDK/
As to the new drive ... unless the old drive is a 1 TB drive and the new one is 120 GB, I would use the newer and presumably more reliable drive in the new MBP.
As to using the TimeMachine backup to restore, you would still be re-installing the same and older-hardware device drivers.
You could use the older drive after you transfer your files to re-install the new OS (Mountain Lion is due out) using Command-R and the internet link to get a new system-tuned OS. Or you could use CarbonCopyClone or SupderDuper! to use the old drive as an external bootable clone that can be used to reboot your entire system when/if the internal disk or the OSX on the internal drive is is trouble.
Can I physically swap hard drives from one mac to another?
