Corrupt hard-drive, swapped for an older drive from another similar MacBook Pro
My original hard drive is corrupt, I swapped to an older drive which has snow lepoard on it, when installing Yosemite it freezes now i cant boot into the old OS and installer freezes extracting.
Disk utility says the disk is fine, with no issues.
The original disk failed and would not boot, disk utility says it was corrupt. I have another MacBook pro so i swapped the HD's, it is 320GB compared to the 500GB (failed drive).
It was working fine on Snow Leopard but when I ran the upgrade in the App Store, it freezes everytime at the same point in the install ( extracting the same .pkg file).
Any ideas?
You apparently have a MBP that came with an OSX newer than Snow Leopard. If that is the case, the Snow Leopard HDD will not boot in the newer MBP. If you erase that HDD and install the OSX that came with your MBP (or a newer one), then it will be compatible.
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