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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
Replace old MacBook HDD with one from a new refurbished MacBook?
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1230240" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>Perfectly sensible, but don't expect to simply pop the drive in and have it work. The newer MacBook will inevitably use different drivers. So, you'll want to clone the new MacBook's hard drive to its replacement hard drive. Then, you'll pull that drive out, install it in the old MacBook and do an Erase & Install on the operating system, using the system discs that originally shipped with that machine (the newer system discs won't work with the old machine).</p><p></p><p>Hopefully that all makes sense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1230240, member: 24098"] Perfectly sensible, but don't expect to simply pop the drive in and have it work. The newer MacBook will inevitably use different drivers. So, you'll want to clone the new MacBook's hard drive to its replacement hard drive. Then, you'll pull that drive out, install it in the old MacBook and do an Erase & Install on the operating system, using the system discs that originally shipped with that machine (the newer system discs won't work with the old machine). Hopefully that all makes sense. [/QUOTE]
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