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MacBook Pro Retina update to Catalina without working hd
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1843125" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>To be clear, the install files are NOT bootable. It might be the EFI that is preventing you from booting, but all you have on the drive are the installer files, they are not bootable. The internet installation process should have installed the system to the internal drive and set the EFI to allow it to boot.</p><p></p><p>I'm slightly confused by your sentence: What does that mean, exactly? The internet installation should install either the latest system that runs on your machine, or the system that originally came with it. Either will do for your purpose, as you can upgrade from the original to whatever more current system you want. You also said earlier: SSD's don't require HS, they can be used with older systems. Sierra should be able to use an SSD just fine. Which of the eight MBPs that use the A1502 model number do you have? All of them are from 2013-2014, I think. I have an SSD in a 2008 iMac running El Cap, so you should be able to use an SSD with Sierra.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1843125, member: 396914"] To be clear, the install files are NOT bootable. It might be the EFI that is preventing you from booting, but all you have on the drive are the installer files, they are not bootable. The internet installation process should have installed the system to the internal drive and set the EFI to allow it to boot. I'm slightly confused by your sentence: What does that mean, exactly? The internet installation should install either the latest system that runs on your machine, or the system that originally came with it. Either will do for your purpose, as you can upgrade from the original to whatever more current system you want. You also said earlier: SSD's don't require HS, they can be used with older systems. Sierra should be able to use an SSD just fine. Which of the eight MBPs that use the A1502 model number do you have? All of them are from 2013-2014, I think. I have an SSD in a 2008 iMac running El Cap, so you should be able to use an SSD with Sierra. [/QUOTE]
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