How To Prepare A New Hard Drive For Mac Osx

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Being a 1 Mac household and an IT professional who has only supported PCs, I had a challenging time trying to figure out how to reload OSX after my husband's Mac hard drive died. Hopefully I diagnosed a bad hard drive correctly (I'll provide my method) and I hope this helps someone out there. This is probably overkill on instructions, but there are PC people out there who may try to help out the (much more) rare critical Mac issue.

How to clean install Mac OS from USB. It scans your hard drive for old caches, broken apps, and app leftovers so you can remove all unwanted files in a minute or two. After all, a newly installed OS X feels better on a clean computer. Select your main drive and install a new OS X on it.

I did most of this from memory, so I may have messed up a label here or there. Please use Common sense if I did this and look around the screen for something that looks like what I'm talking about. NOTE: This process only worked because the hard drive was still able to access recovery mode by holding Command+R on startup. If your Mac is unable to access that feature, this may not work for you, but I included some other handy stuff, like recovering files from the drive. Initial Symptom: My husband's Mac had been randomly shutting down for some time, but we were limping it along.

Finally, on startup one day, he saw a progress bar that would complete and then the device would shut down. Here is the process I followed: Things you'll need: • SATA/IDE to USB Adapter (Mine was Vantec USB 2.0, but it shouldn't matter. How to use powerpoint for mac. Be sure to get one with external power source. I've had little to no success with USB powered devices. • Mac running OSX Lion or later (prior versions didn't have the recovery partition) • New Hard drive that is compatible with Mac.

• T8 Mini Torx screw driver • Small phillips screwdriver • Recommend: A cold beer and a lot of patience • Just in case you pull off the rubber coating, you'll need a case removal tool like you use to replace a cell phone screen. Step 1: Troubleshoot the Device • Power off the Device • Hold down the Command+R keys as you start the device.

Prepare a new hard drive for macbook

Continue holding the keys until the Recovery Utility prompts you to select a language (Grey Screen) **NOTE:**You may have to hold the keys for up to two minutes. • After you've selected a language preference, Select the Disk Utility item in the list of utilities. • Select your drive on the left navigation panel (It's probably already selected) • Click the Verify Disk button in the Disk Utilities.

It will probably show some erros. Click the Repair Disk button that will only appear after you click Verify. Do this until there are no errors or (like me) you receive a message saying that the disc couldn't be repaired. • Click the Verify Disk Permissions button.

If this completes successfully, click Repair Disk Permissions NOTE This may solve your problem. If you didn't receive a nasty message on step 5 saying the Disk was corrupt, to back up your files and such, good on ya! Wd my passport for mac 1tb external hard drive walmart. Try some Canadian troubleshooting -- When in doot (doubt) Reboot!

Step 2: Removing the Hard Drive from the Mac Here's a great visual guide to the steps below: • Turn off the MacBook. • Remove the hard drive from the device by removing the 8 screws from the bottom of the MacBook and pulling off the bottom cover, being careful not to pull at the edges as it will pull off the rubber coating. If you accidentally do this, tip to follow. To pull the cover, put your fingers at the hinge of the MacBook screen (from the bottom), and lift from the metal part under the rubber cover. • You will see a small black bar held down with two screws right next to the hard drive.