Cannot update mac OS X after SSD upgrade

[Mrwasi]

I have an early 2013 MacBook Pro, updated the ssd and it automatically installed OSX 10.8.5. Trying to get it to Catalina but everytime I click update, nothing happens. Try to sign in to apple store, nothing happens. And safari is so old that it won't open any of apples webpages. I downloaded a Catalina patcher from my other Mac and when I select it, nothing happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙏

 

[ToniCH]

Using the other Mac make a bootable USB-thumbdrive, boot from it and install OS from it.

Download OS: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683
Make USB-drive: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372

Don't use patchers to install Catalina to a machine that supports it natively.

 

[rampancy]

I have an early 2013 MacBook Pro, updated the ssd and it automatically installed OSX 10.8.5. Trying to get it to Catalina but everytime I click update, nothing happens. Try to sign in to apple store, nothing happens. And safari is so old that it won't open any of apples webpages. I downloaded a Catalina patcher from my other Mac and when I select it, nothing happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙏

What you could do is completely reset the App Store, and then try logging back in. To get around Safari being old, try a newer web browser like SeaLion from wicknix. From there, you should be able to access the Apple page where you can find the link to Catalina.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Is this one of the MBPs that need to have an Apple OEM SSD in it to perform the firmware upgrade to get past Mojave?