I replaced the almost full 80GB drive in my wife's MacBook with a new larger
one, and now it won't boot.
To prepare the new drive I mounted the MacBook on my Mac in target disk mode
over firewire; attached the new drive via an external USB interface; used Disk
Utility to 'restore' the old drive to the new. That went fine.
What I should have then done is to move the USB mounted new drive to the
MacBook, and attempt to boot off it (actually, can you do that over USB?).
But I was in a hurry so I pulled out the old drive, pushed in the new. I got
the flashing folder question mark. I undid the screws and reseated the new
drive a bit more firmly. This time when I rebooted I got Apple logo with a
spinner below; which was eventually replaced with a 'forbidden' sign (circle
with a diagonal line) and a spinner; after long wait this didn't change.
I attempted to boot off an AHT disk without success. I thought that might be
the DVD drive being a bit rubbish, as in my experience optical drives on Mac
laptops tend to be after a year or two.
I then rebooted in target disk mode, and connected it to another Mac over
firewire; both the new drive, and the AHT disk that was still in the slot
mounted immediately. Running Disk Utility on the other Mac I then verified
the new drive (over firewire) and it came up clean.
If I start the MacBook with the option key down it shows me the new drive, but
not the optical disk; but then when I select that I generally again get the
apple logo with spinner, succeeded by the forbidden sign with spinner.
So it appears that the drive is mounting fine, but not accepted as bootable;
but I can't boot off a CD/DVD either.
Any suggestions?
thanks in advance
Ben
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