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Booting From OSX SSD

blindseal
By blindseal
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So my mom has a 2013ish Macbook Pro and the SSD in it was recently giving warning signs that sectors were going bad so we backed it up to an external SSD of mine and replaced the drive. I still have the back up (which she booted off of for a few days) and I kind of want to see if I can boot off of it on my windows laptop, or at least use a VM for it. However, Windows won't show it in file explorer (only the disk manager) and it won't boot off of it with boot mode set to legacy. What do I need to do to either boot of it or create a VM?

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1 minute ago, blindseal said:

So my mom has a 2013ish Macbook Pro and the SSD in it was recently giving warning signs that sectors were going bad so we backed it up to an external SSD of mine and replaced the drive. I still have the back up (which she booted off of for a few days) and I kind of want to see if I can boot off of it on my windows laptop, or at least use a VM for it. However, Windows won't show it in file explorer (only the disk manager) and it won't boot off of it with boot mode set to legacy. What do I need to do to either boot of it or create a VM?

was it mac OS or windows?

I live in misery USA. my timezone is central daylight time which is either UTC -5 or -4 because the government hates everyone.

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1 minute ago, blindseal said:

The external SSD has Mac OS on it

then you won't be able to read it on windows file explorer because windows filesystem is ntfs and macOS is AFAIK ext3 or ext4. You can probably get a program to look at it

I live in misery USA. my timezone is central daylight time which is either UTC -5 or -4 because the government hates everyone.

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