musicMagpie sell refurb macbook pros - get one from there and transfer hardrive
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I hope nothing else! Got another mac with High Sierra. The old one was updated fairly recently His Sierra as well I think.
Surely that's not going to be an issue?
The way they show in online it looks easy. To be fair the issue so far was I was not able to find the right connector.
I really hope things go smoothly. The enclosure should be delivered today.:confusion:
Mac to Mac on high sierra should be okay, the filesystem format changed at that version I believe so ant earlier it might have become more of a challenge
Surely buying another laptop and swapping out the HD's wouldn't work? Even if the hardware was absolutely identical wouldn't there be ID's and other embedded data that wouldn't just transfer over.
I did the same thing with a Dell laptop. It was only exposed to liquid for a few brief seconds but it was dead.
The HD wasn't though so you pull it, install it in an enclosure and connect it as an external drive.
Got the right enclosure, connected everything. Mac not recognising the older SDD!
I've reached my limit. Time to call in the experts.
Is there any chance the SDD was fried in the accident?
There is a power supply cable along with it I thought this wouldn't need a power supply?
Try it. Sometimes it may need it to start spinning.
Did you say you tried to hook up the enclosure plus your removed drive to the same MacBook that the drive was removed from?
Does your original Macbook ( the one that spillage) power back up?
Errr didn’t you say you were going to use another Mac?
The one you removed the drive from wouldn’t turn on before you removed the ssd or have I misunderstood?
As per my earlier question you are unlikely to get a Mac drive to mount on windows without additional 3rd party software.
That's what I was confused about also Captain Morgan.
I thought 72bpm you wanted to transfer your hard drive files to another device to save them?
Yes, I'm using another Mac. I used a Windows laptop to see if there was any other issue. You are correct, it didn't turn on after the spill.
Yes, that is what I want to do. So my new MacBook didn't recognise the old one's SSD as an external drive, whereas the windows recognised it as 'something' is connected!
I was hoping it will be as simple as connecting the old SSD via USB so that it comes up as an external drive and transfer the data. Clearly Mac will not make it that easy! :BangHead:
Does the hard drive have to have any specific drivers so that your other Apple device can read it?
Have a read throug this, mainly not applicable but the power and disk utility sections might help.
https://appletoolbox.com/2017/03/mac...shooting-tips/
Hello folks, just an update. After giving up on cleaning my MacBook gave it to my local computer guy. The SDD is dead, no chance of recovering the data on it. He's offered to stick a new SDD of the same capacity. all in all I'm £ 360 lighter - both repair and new SDD. Lesson learnt - back up, back up & back up. Now I have a 2 TB NAS and 2 X 5TB external drives! Bit of an overkill, don't want to go through this again. Thank you all for your help.
Sorry to hear that. Was reading up on it yesterday. Has it put you off Apple products?
Not exactly. I have bought another Macbook! The advantage I see with Mac is the OS - less malware and virus more stable than Windows. Of course, it is Apple's way or the highway, I can live with that. Apple has removed the Maglock charging and all you get is 4 Thunderbolt ports - not ideal but could be worse! Still in the process of setting it up and getting it to function like my old one! Thanks again.
I feel bad you ended up spending lots in the end to come to some sort of solution.
It wouldn't matter what type of laptop he had. Spilling wine on any computer has a good chance if killing major components.