Is this a black MacBook by any chance...?.
Sent from my iPad On 31 Mar 2011, at 17:40, Ben Rubinstein <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
