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Installing a new drive in a Macbook pro

Allupyourfinger
By Allupyourfinger
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My old drive failed so I got an SSD to replace it. I put the SSD into a different mac of mine that is working so I could easily install Mac OS Using Disk Utility. The drive would boot up fine on that Mac but when I moved it to the mac with the broken drive. The mac would not boot.

 

I am wondering if the OS needs to be the same as the one shipped on the mac originally (I think I may have read this somewhere) and/or if the OS needs to be installed from the mac that it's going into.

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OS Needs to be installed on the mac on the NEW drive.

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26 minutes ago, Allupyourfinger said:

I am wondering if the OS needs to be the same as the one shipped on the mac originally (I think I may have read this somewhere) and/or if the OS needs to be installed from the mac that it's going into.

No, you can install the os on another.

What Macbook is it?

Why don't you just install it directly?

Burn the installer disk in a USB drive.

And select the usb in the boot screen (immediately press and hold the Option key).

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49 minutes ago, Allupyourfinger said:

My old drive failed so I got an SSD to replace it. I put the SSD into a different mac of mine that is working so I could easily install Mac OS Using Disk Utility. The drive would boot up fine on that Mac but when I moved it to the mac with the broken drive. The mac would not boot.

 

I am wondering if the OS needs to be the same as the one shipped on the mac originally (I think I may have read this somewhere) and/or if the OS needs to be installed from the mac that it's going into.

What Model #? If you don't know that, what year (Mid 2012, Late 2015, etc)?

If you have another mac, you can create a bootable USB drive from a macOS ISO, then install it from said flash drive. 

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