|
Title: Troubleshoot and recover a Mac with a failed drive Post by: HCK on August 27, 2017, 04:05:13 pm Troubleshoot and recover a Mac with a failed drive
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Hard drives failures can happen to anyone, including Mac 911 columnists. A relatively new hard drive bit the dust, requiring days of work to get back to status quo ante.</p><p>My wife has a 2011-era MacBook Pro and was barely keeping space free on its original 512GB hard drive. An upgrade made sense, and for a machine of that vintage, the cost of a 1TB SSD seemed too high. We opted for an affordable hard drive. I used a USB 2.0 enclosure to clone the existing drive via Disk Utility while booted into Recovery, which left us with a backup (the original drive) and the newly cloned drive, which I swapped into the computer. We also updated an existing SuperDuper clone as an additional safety policy. (Disk Utility lets you clone and restore drives (http://www.macworld.com/article/3141659/macs/the-best-way-to-migrate-an-old-macs-system-to-a-new-mac.html), a nifty hidden superpower in Recovery.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3214430/storage/troubleshoot-and-recover-a-mac-with-a-failed-drive.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Troubleshoot and recover a Mac with a failed drive (http://www.macworld.com/article/3214430/storage/troubleshoot-and-recover-a-mac-with-a-failed-drive.html#tk.rss_all) |