Q: Swaping my hard drive to another MacBook Pro
Hi Folks
I got another MacBook pro of my friend, as he upgraded. he Had sold his hard drive to someone. so it came without a HDD. However this was good for me as I upgraded my other MacBook to 1TB/SSD.
I was then left with my old 500GB Yosemite HDD. The question is do I have to wipe this drive/erase, to mac extended journal, before I can install? I have got backups on my external hard drive of this one as well.
I have done this before with my mac mini, but I cant remember, got a mind like a sieve
Any tips will be very helpful.
Regards
Cap
Posted on Dec 30, 2015 12:46 AM
So. You have a hard drive that can have the operating system reinstalled on it as long as it is in a hard drive caddy and connected to the computer. And you can even boot to it that way and go to screen. But once you install it , it will not boot. Anything tried with the hard drive installed will not work. The hard drive is setup correctly With the main hard drive set to GUID and the indented drive set to mac os extended journaled. That makes me think that the internal hard drive cable is faulty. Could even have a pin on it that is bent or broken.
Posted on Jan 6, 2016 12:39 PM