Troubleshoot and recover a Mac with a failed drive<article>
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<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, 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>
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Troubleshoot and recover a Mac with a failed drive
