I have just updated my hard drive in my 15" MBP. I then loaded lion over Internet and then restored from my old HD. Now the MBP will not boot! Have I stuffed it?
HI, help! I have just replaced my hard rive in my 15" MBP.I have loaded lion back via Internet . I then restored from my old hard drive. Now the MBP won't boot, where as before I restored it was operating perfectly just with out my data only icloud data. Can I erase, my restore? Will I ever see my data again?
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I have just replaced my hard rive in my 15" MBP.I have loaded lion back
via Internet . I then restored from my old hard drive. Now the MBP
won't boot
What do you see on the screen when it doesn't boot??
Gray, Blue or White screen at boot, w/spinner/progress bar
or
Folder with question mark issue?
How did you restore from your old hard drive?
Technically all that was needed was to use Migration Assistant on the fresh OS X install to migrate users accounts and programs to the new machine.
You can use a SATA to USB adapter to connect the old drive if you want to go that way and start over with a fresh install again on the new drive.
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Well without no information to work with, try reinstall.
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Otherwise see Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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