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MacBook Pro SSD and RAM upgrade help.

  • 29-06-2020 08:45PM
    #1
    Jofspring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,208 ✭✭✭


    Hope you can help guys and this is the right thread.

    My father has a mid-2012 MacBook Pro. He upgraded to the latest Mac OS Catalina. His laptop was struggling since this so I told him I would upgrade his RAM and switch him to an SSD. I did this with my MacBook and had no issues but I can't upgrade to OS Catalina, I only have High Sierra.

    So firstly I changed the RAM to at least get his computer to respond. That went fine and sped up the laptop considerably already.

    Then I used Super-duper to make a carbon copy of his HDD to the new SSD 1TB. It said the SSD had to be formatted to APFS so I did that and started the copy. Again all seemed to go fine with this and it finished saying bootable etc....

    So I installed the new SSD in the MacBook went to boot up and it gets to about 75% of the bar loaded and just crashes.

    I had read that sometimes the old SATA cable might need to be changed due to the higher capacity drive. I did this and still have the same issue.

    When I start the computer in recovery and go to disk utility and click on info it says: Bootable "No".

    Can any help me with this. As I said I did it no problem with my own MacBook Pro. Only difference was I put in a 500GB hard drive to my MacBook and I'm putting a 1TB into my father's.

    Would a clean install over the internet solve the booting issue?


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  • #2
    PaulT21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 736 ✭✭✭PaulT21


    Jofspring wrote: »
    Hope you can help guys and this is the right thread.

    My father has a mid-2012 MacBook Pro. He upgraded to the latest Mac OS Catalina. His laptop was struggling since this so I told him I would upgrade his RAM and switch him to an SSD. I did this with my MacBook and had no issues but I can't upgrade to OS Catalina, I only have High Sierra.

    So firstly I changed the RAM to at least get his computer to respond. That went fine and sped up the laptop considerably already.

    Then I used Super-duper to make a carbon copy of his HDD to the new SSD 1TB. It said the SSD had to be formatted to APFS so I did that and started the copy. Again all seemed to go fine with this and it finished saying bootable etc....

    So I installed the new SSD in the MacBook went to boot up and it gets to about 75% of the bar loaded and just crashes.

    I had read that sometimes the old SATA cable might need to be changed due to the higher capacity drive. I did this and still have the same issue.

    When I start the computer in recovery and go to disk utility and click on info it says: Bootable "No".

    Can any help me with this. As I said I did it no problem with my own MacBook Pro. Only difference was I put in a 500GB hard drive to my MacBook and I'm putting a 1TB into my father's.

    Would a clean install over the internet solve the booting issue?

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=108

    You might get better assistance on the Mac thread.


  • #3
    Jofspring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,208 ✭✭✭Jofspring


    PaulT21 wrote: »
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=108

    You might get better assistance on the Mac thread.

    Cheers, didn't realise there was a Mac specific section.


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