1 Problems with hard drive replacement
I’m trying to put a different hard drive into a MacBook Unibody that a friend handed down to me (the silver one), but whenever I try and boot up the MacBook off the hard drive, I get a prohibitory symbol.
The hard drive I’m using is a Crucial 2.5 inch SSD BX100. It was installed in a different MacBook (white unibody, 2009). That 2009 white MacBook is no longer working, so I thought it would be a simple matter of taking the SSD out of the white MacBook and popping it into the silver one. This didn’t work.
I still have the original hard drive that came with the white MacBook, and the silver MacBook will boot up off of that original HD. But I want to install my SSD because it’s what I’ve been using for the last five years.
What do I need to do to get my SSD to work in the silver MacBook? TIA.
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The prohibitory symbol usually indicates an incompatible OS that's installed on the boot drive. What version of macOS is on the SSD?
von Auto
Thanks for the reply - that makes sense. The SSD has Sierra, which seems like it's incompatible with the silver MacBook I'm trying to use now (on initial google search).
If that's the case, then it seems like my options are either:
-Continue using the old HD from my white MacBook (running Yosemite) which will probably be fine (I'm not doing any sort of video editing, etc on this laptop.)
- Find some way to make the SSD work in the silver MacBook. Not sure if this is possible, or if it's worth it.
von Shilpa Reddy