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impossible to boot a new hair drive

hello, I've been trying to substitute my old 1tb HD with a new samsung M9T for two weeks now with out any luck. Its the second time i upgrade my HD , 4 years ago I've went form 250gb to 1Tb and the process was very easy, i used Carbon Copy Cloner. after few tries it all went smooth, this time its different..009


i have a macbook unibody late 2009 white, with 8Gb ram, a non functioning dvd, 2.6Ghz intel core 2 duo

here is the story:


  • realised i was running out of space (once more!! 🙂 )
  • ordered a new Samsung M9T from eBay
  • backed up all my data on to a 4tb external HD for precoution
  • formatted the new HD to Extended Journaled BUT the HD was making some clicking noise but i went on, (not failing clicking noise, more like one every once in a while)
  • tried with CCC (carbon Copy Cloner) several time but the click kept unmounting, it was driving me crazy
  • the after lots of internet search on why this could be happening i changed the old USB cord to my goPro USB (which is top notch USB3) and it all start running much better, no more unmounting!!! hooray!!
  • main while searching on the web for explanation i verified my main HD and the message at the end said something like, hard drive corrupted, back up as many file as possible and format
  • i've re formated the new M9T several time but nothing.
  • so i've returned the M9T to the seller and bought a new one from a different one
  • here i am now with the new one, it doesn't make any click noise unless is being formatted ( normally it make one click at some point during the formatting with i believe sounds fine)
  • i formatted the New M9T again to extended Journaled and started with carbon copy but the process stops because the disk unmount during the process
  • so i tried another way
  • i've downloaded yosemite install pack and install it on a new M9T by clicking on the installation icon, then it automatically restart and started to follow setup steps
  • i got asked if i wanted to migrate datas from a time machine, i said yes and i selected all my stuff (945Gb of data)
  • i let the computer run all night and in the morning the process was finished
  • i restarted the computer, went outside to smoke a cigarette and when i came back the computer was shut off
  • so i tried again to start it, it would load till a certain point and cut off the power
  • i then restarted the Mac on the old internal HD
  • reformatted the new M9T and install once again Yosemite but this time i only imported system file (something less than 1Mb)
  • but once again once i try to boot the system the power cuts off during the process
  • i verified the New M9t with DU (disk utility) and there were some errors, so i repaired it successfully and restarted the system with the new M9T startup
  • same again, grey screen, the apple and charging bat till 40% the cut off power




WHAT THE ****????


Im trying as I'm writing this call for help to install a bootable copy of Yosemite on a memory stick and try to install yosemite from there.


i have a feeling my old HD is somehow responsible for all this mess with its corruption but i might be wrong!!


all i want to do now its to just have a new yosemite running on my new 2TB HD and then from there hopefully ill be able to import all my applications and file using time machine (945GB of it eeeeeek!!)


do you have any suggestion?

MacBook, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4), null

Posted on Jul 28, 2015 8:36 AM

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Jul 29, 2015 9:13 AM in response to RoXdwa

This is the correct course of events.


1. Remove old drive and replace it with the new drive, use the standard internal connection (SATA)

2. Partition and format the new drive using Disk Utility (from the Recovery Partition or a bootable disk)

3. Install OSX (from Recovery or from another bootable source)

4. Test the installation now!

5. Once OS X is installed place the old drive in an external enclosure with a USB interface

6. Restore the files you need from the external to the internal

7. Cocktail time.


Excluding data restoration this is a 20 to 30 minute project.

Jul 29, 2015 10:37 PM in response to Csound1

Thank you C its all working now,


the only thing i didn't do was the one that fixed it.... installing the new HD and then setup yosemite with recovery disk from old hard drive via USB


Last time i did this with 1Tb HD it worked fine with migrating the lot from main HD via USB with CCC, you odd 2Tb !!!:)


thank you so much again and sorry for being a little long in explaining..... i'm Italian and we like to talk and it the first time i was using this blog


Have great Day you all!!:)


Ciao

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