The hard drive on my mid-2012 Macbook Pro 13" recently failed. I have drive from a mid-2010 model in an external case, so I tried to swap it in, but the machine would not boot. Instead, I got the blinking question mark. Am I missing something, or is the drive incompatible with the newer machine?
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Can I put a mid-2010 SATA drive in my mid-2012 MBP?
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Thanks. I think maybe I would need to reinstall the OS....? It came directly out of the 2010 machine.
Yes, if that 2010 machine ran on an (older) OS which is not supported by the 2012 machine.
Turns out that the disk cable was bad. After the second failure I took it to a technician, who put in a new cable. He told me that both my drive and the cable were bad, however. That seemed unlikely, so I put the old drive in an external case and checked for myself. Sure enough, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it. So now I have my 2010 machine's drive in my MBP and the 2012 machine's drive in a case! Works for now.