Replaced Failing MacBook Pro Hard Drive & Can't Get New Drive To Boot
I have a MacBook Pro 2009ish and the hard drive is failing. I was able to restore the failing drive to a new drive using Disk Utility on another Mac. If I hold the option key I see the new drive but after selecting it the machine sits for a minute or so on the grey screen then shuts off.
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Ended up performing a clean install and manually recovering the files. Lots of files are corrupted. iPhoto is all a mess. Never knew until this that the photos were all added to a single database file. What a terrible design. Thanks for your efforts.
I usually export the iphoto files. I also prefer to connect the iphone or ipad to a Windows system to just get the files directly. Having them in iphoto seems rather inconvenient. I wish you could just mount the it as a disk on a Mac without a jailbreak or 3rd party software. You could still have run the rsync commands to grab most of the files.
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Unfortunately I was pressed for time and moved forward before having a chance to do the rsync. Your efforts are much appreciated. Thanks.
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Points are for efforts. Thanks for the responses. Ended up doing a fresh install to resolve my problem.
If you can't get the recovery partion, try holding down Command-V while booting, this is called "Verbose Mode" and may give a clue as to error messages or what it's doing when it fails to boot properly. You may wish to have a camera handy to snap a photo of the screen if the errors disappear when the screen goes dark.
Let me know that error message or messages if you get that far.