Your exactly right Lee & I have ordered an external case to try & do just that. What puzzles me is I have replaced two different Mac Mini drives with raw blank drives. BOTH started by telling me the drives needed to be formatted, this was at the first push of the power button, after formatting I was ask if I wanted to restore from a TimeMachine backup, New install or from another Mac.
How in the world was this possible? There was nothing on either of these drives, one was a disk drive for my daughters Mini, the other was an SSD drive in a mini of mine. Since I had experienced this twice I thought that is how this drive should perform. John Sent from my iPad > On Aug 8, 2016, at 7:27 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Aug 7, 2016, at 1:01 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> My grandson’s Macbook Pro’s hard drive bit the dust. >> >> He looked on Amazon, ordered a Fusion type drive, part hard disk, part Solid >> State. >> >> I installed, and on booting I get a dialogue asking for the network, then a >> file seems to be loading. > > I’ve been away for a few days, so you may have resolved this one. > > What are you booting from? You must have a system drive connected to the > machine for it to boot. A bare, unformatted drive will not boot your machine. > It looks to me like an attempt to netboot because it can’t see an operating > system. > > My usual procedure is to connect a new drive externally to another good > machine. After the good machine boots, I can install a file system and MacOS > on the new drive. > > L^2 > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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