hold down ctl+R, nothing happens and I get flashing question folder My most recent time machine back up was running mountain lion, but the old hard drive is the OS that the MacBook started with (10.4?). However, this is where I'm having problems.Īs soon as I've unplugged the original hard drive (which boots my old desktop and everything as though I never stopped using it as then main hard drive), I can't get the MacBook to boot up from the new hard drive on its own. By doing this I was able to erase and partition the brand new drive ready to pick up my most recent time machine back up. I've put it in the macbook, and booted by having the original, USB encased hard drive plugged in as well. I popped to the computer store and bought a new replacement hard drive, same specs as the one that died. After that the MacBook functioned happily.įast forward to now, and the replacement hard drive has failed. As the original hard drive turned out to be fine, I stuck that in an external USB case and used it as a non-precious back up and for extra storage. I did this myself as I was well out of warranty and it was a simple fix. I bought a new hard drive, only to find that the MacBook couldn't recognise that either, so it turned out my hard drive connection cable needed replacing. After about 3 years, it appeared that the hard drive had failed. I bought my MacBook Pro in around 2010 - it's a 13" aluminium model. This is a slightly unusual setup so bear with me.
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