![]() Here's the needed cable MacBook Pro 15" Unibody (Mid 2009-Late 2011) Hard Drive Cable grab a new one before its too late as once they are gone thats it! And here's the guide MacBook Pro 15" Unibody Early 2011 Hard Drive/IR Sensor Cable Replacementīut before you put it in. So you need to upgrade the cable and apply a single strip of electricians tape as described to help protect the cable from chaffing on the aluminum. To add more to this Apple has some problems with the cables! Your Hard Drive Cable Is A Ticking Time Bomb and the roughness of the uppercase didn't help matters as the machining was not that good. Todays SSD's on the other hand are like a firehose! and the older cables just can't support the throughput causing serious errors which causes the system to chew on its self overheating in the process! Later systems got a SATA III (6.0 gb/s) HDD but it still wasn't pushing the throughput of the HD cable that hard. Now you need to work around what Internet recovery does as its not going to properly prep the drive (as you encountered)īut! Before we get into the OS aspects we need to deal with one more hardware fix! This series (all 2011 13/15" systems) where sold with SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) HDD's and the HD SATA cable was only qualified for SATA II throughput. A SSD drive would be magically upgraded to APFS. A HDD which was upgraded year to year would still be HFS+ unless you altered the file system within Disk Utility. ![]() Internet recovery is offering you the older macOS release which has issues with the newer macOS's This gets into the file system structure from the older HFS+ vs APFS, macOS 10.13 is the edge case! when the file system flipped between the two. How can I get the OS into the new SSD? Any help is greatly appreciated! I assume that the internal (new) SSD is not formatted or recognized and everything is running off of the old hard drive (attached externally), so I am just "ignore"ing this for now, but now I have a new SSD that isn't getting used and the problems (slow slow slow running and startup) are still there because I am using the old hard drive, in a case, attache by a cable, to boot up and to run the OS. So I booted up with the old hard drive (in the case) attached with a cable and the machine boots fine, but a notice comes up that the "disk I installed is not recognized" would I like to, "format", "ignore" or "eject". I added all of my old passwords one by one, still the lock is there. ![]() I attenpted to follow the procedure recommneded for transferring the OS to the new SSD from the old hard drive (procedure linked at the end of the SSD replacement) and held the keys during startup (without the external old hard drive attached), but all that came up on startup was a gray screen with a padlock symbol with a text bar beneath it, like it is asking for a password? This is not in the procedure. Is my recovery key just my account password? I'm really confused here.I recently added an SSD to my macbook pro and the old hard drive is in a case, with cable, attached externally. I don't remember if I selected the option for iCloud FileVault Recovery, but it definitely sounds like something I would select. I don't remember ever setting a recovery key, but I think I read that it was automatic. ![]() It's also worth noting that I don't even remember setting up encryption for this MacBook. Is there anything I should know about that? Will I be able to read my files with the encryption key? Can you even view the backed up files in a time machine backup in the first place? I did get a notification saying that I was backing up an encrypted disk to an unencrypted one. Would it work okay? I think I read you could back up APFS to HFS+, or maybe it was the other way around? Do I need to create a whole new partition or something. My external hard drive Time Machine partition is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I checked Disk Utility and apparently my Macbook is using APFS (Encrypted). I turned on my Macbook Pro after a while of not using it (mostly due to the broken keyboard) and I want to back it up to my external hard drive, especially before trying to update it.
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