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Is it possible to move a MacOS installed hdd to a new computer, with the new computer running MacOS

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I am building a new computer, I happen to have a HDD from my old macbook pro, with no experience in computer building is it possible to run mac with the same HDD from the macbook pro if i transferred the HDD over to the new computer?

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I tried it once when my dads macbook had an issue. I get the SSD (hard disk) from the macbook and connected it with a USB to my macbook. I booted it up with holding the alt button and then I select it to boot from to USB hard disk. This worked 100% fine. If you want to try it first I advice an external case for a hard disk to usb and try the same thing I did.

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But my Macbook is spoilt, does it work if i were to install the Hard disk from the Macbook to the computer? 

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If you're trying to boot MacOS on a non-Apple computer, it's not going to work. 

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with some 3rd party software your PC can read the files on the drive if you have some stuff you are wanting to get off of the drive, but just sticking the drive into a pc and booting into osx isnt going to happen. 

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4 minutes ago, intender said:

with some 3rd party software your PC can read the files on the drive if you have some stuff you are wanting to get off of the drive, but just sticking the drive into a pc and booting into osx isnt going to happen. 

This is going to be the best solution.

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6 minutes ago, intender said:

with some 3rd party software your PC can read the files on the drive if you have some stuff you are wanting to get off of the drive, but just sticking the drive into a pc and booting into osx isnt going to happen. 

Any ideas or suggestions on third party software?

 

is it possible to do it with and external drive?

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4 hours ago, PJH said:

I am building a new computer, I happen to have a HDD from my old macbook pro, with no experience in computer building is it possible to run mac with the same HDD from the macbook pro if i transferred the HDD over to the new computer?

Hackintosh is a solution but this is not allowed to discuss here so go on tonymacx86.com

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Hackintoshes aren't allowed by Apple's terms of service, and therefore help with them can't be given on this site, sorry.

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