Hard drive upgrade not working

[cereus18]

Hey all
I am using a Late 2013 MBPR. I did extensive research on what to get and ended up getting the syntech adapter and an EVO970 (based on recs from here) and my Mac sees my drive, but when I run restore from the external, it runs into the "Couldn't unmount all volumes prior to inversion" (OSStatus error 60). I haven't been able to find any info on this yet. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

[treekram]

Do you have the 970 Evo or the 970 Evo Plus? There have been numerous reports of people having problems with the 970 Evo Plus in Macs.

 

[cereus18]

Do you have the 970 Evo or the 970 Evo Plus? There have been numerous reports of people having problems with the 970 Evo Plus in Macs.

Just the EVO, I made sure because of those reports of the Plus not working

 

[treekram]

What are you trying to restore from - Time Machine, a disk image, something else? It would also help if you describe the process you're using - are you in recovery?, booting from an external disk, etc.

 

[cereus18]

Hi,
Thank you. I'm really not very knowledgeable so I've been trying to figure out the process on my own. I managed to make a bootable external drive after mine failed, transferred the data to it, and I'm using that to restore the internal drive. I'm using disk utility because my drive won't show up as an option when I restart. I'm not in recovery mode yet as it will give me the flashing folder/question mark icon instead. I re-seated the drive, and disk utility sees it. When I go into restoring from Disk Utility, I get that error message.

 

[treekram]

I did a search on your error message and like you, didn't come up with much. The Disk Utility restore that I think you're using (not the image restore) isn't used much and actually, you're the first instance I can recall of anybody using it here. It may have been used in posts I've read previously but I may have just assumed it was an image restore.

What OS do you want to use? If it's Mojave, you can use the Internet Recovery to re-install the OS. If there is a problem with the SSD or something related to the SSD, chances are that you won't be able to install the OS. If you can install the OS, then you can use the Migration Assistant (will come up as a part of the installation process) to migrate the data from your bootable backup to the new SSD.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904

If you want to use an OS other than Mojave, you would either need to try to get the Disk Utility restore working or get a USB OS Installer. I'm guessing that you either want to use Mojave or High Sierra because the "inversion" term seems to be related to APFS, which is only used in High Sierra or Mojave. If you were trying to use a different OS, then perhaps you were trying to restore to an APFS OS from a non-APFS OS or an APFS disk from a non-APFS disk - as I mentioned the Disk Utility restore you tried doesn't seem to be much used so I'm not sure what restrictions there are on it's use.

If you want to continue to try the Disk Utility restore, it would be helpful to know what OS you had originally on your failed drive (and now bootable backup), where are you starting the Disk Utility from (Internet Recovery, your bootable backup disk, etc.), and what type of disk (HDD or SSD) you have as your bootable backup and what file system it uses (HFS+ or APFS).

 

[cereus18]

I did a search on your error message and like you, didn't come up with much. The Disk Utility restore that I think you're using (not the image restore) isn't used much and actually, you're the first instance I can recall of anybody using it here. It may have been used in posts I've read previously but I may have just assumed it was an image restore.

What OS do you want to use? If it's Mojave, you can use the Internet Recovery to re-install the OS. If there is a problem with the SSD or something related to the SSD, chances are that you won't be able to install the OS. If you can install the OS, then you can use the Migration Assistant (will come up as a part of the installation process) to migrate the data from your bootable backup to the new SSD.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904

If you want to use an OS other than Mojave, you would either need to try to get the Disk Utility restore working or get a USB OS Installer. I'm guessing that you either want to use Mojave or High Sierra because the "inversion" term seems to be related to APFS, which is only used in High Sierra or Mojave. If you were trying to use a different OS, then perhaps you were trying to restore to an APFS OS from a non-APFS OS or an APFS disk from a non-APFS disk - as I mentioned the Disk Utility restore you tried doesn't seem to be much used so I'm not sure what restrictions there are on it's use.

If you want to continue to try the Disk Utility restore, it would be helpful to know what OS you had originally on your failed drive (and now bootable backup), where are you starting the Disk Utility from (Internet Recovery, your bootable backup disk, etc.), and what type of disk (HDD or SSD) you have as your bootable backup and what file system it uses (HFS+ or APFS).

Thanks for the detailed response

I'm not using the original drive, it basically failed and being a Mac 2013 I think the original was Leopard? I had it updated to High Sierra before it failed. That drive is gone - I installed the SSD as per some posts here (syntech adapter, EVO 970 Samsung SSD).

To restore, I was using my WD Passport which I turned into a bootable drive and going through restore with Disk Utility. The WD drive has Mojave on it, and it's what I'm using to boot up my Mac now. It's using APFS. The EVO 970 shows up under the drives. When I created the APFS Macintosh drive and ran Restore, it just gave me the Failed to Invert error as I mentioned.

The drive with the syntech adapter, since it's not an original drive, came with a notice that it doesn't support recovery from the internet so... (the Migration assistant, time machine etc stuff I can do OK - I just can't seem to get the internal drive to "become bootable").

 

[cereus18]

I did a search on your error message and like you, didn't come up with much. The Disk Utility restore that I think you're using (not the image restore) isn't used much and actually, you're the first instance I can recall of anybody using it here. It may have been used in posts I've read previously but I may have just assumed it was an image restore.

What OS do you want to use? If it's Mojave, you can use the Internet Recovery to re-install the OS. If there is a problem with the SSD or something related to the SSD, chances are that you won't be able to install the OS. If you can install the OS, then you can use the Migration Assistant (will come up as a part of the installation process) to migrate the data from your bootable backup to the new SSD.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904

If you want to use an OS other than Mojave, you would either need to try to get the Disk Utility restore working or get a USB OS Installer. I'm guessing that you either want to use Mojave or High Sierra because the "inversion" term seems to be related to APFS, which is only used in High Sierra or Mojave. If you were trying to use a different OS, then perhaps you were trying to restore to an APFS OS from a non-APFS OS or an APFS disk from a non-APFS disk - as I mentioned the Disk Utility restore you tried doesn't seem to be much used so I'm not sure what restrictions there are on it's use.

If you want to continue to try the Disk Utility restore, it would be helpful to know what OS you had originally on your failed drive (and now bootable backup), where are you starting the Disk Utility from (Internet Recovery, your bootable backup disk, etc.), and what type of disk (HDD or SSD) you have as your bootable backup and what file system it uses (HFS+ or APFS).

Thanks again! I don't know why this worked, but I just downloaded the Mojave OS, and installed it on the drive and then it was fine... I feel like an idiot because that seems to have been all I needed to do but I can't figure out why the Restore didn't work. I thought the Restore would add the system files needed to make the drive become bootable, but I guess not!

 

[treekram]

Glad everything worked out.

The drive with the syntech adapter, since it's not an original drive, came with a notice that it doesn't support recovery from the internet so... (the Migration assistant, time machine etc stuff I can do OK - I just can't seem to get the internal drive to "become bootable").

I was not aware that this happens with a non-Apple SSD in this MBP model (although the issue maybe that it's a NVMe SSD vs. a AHCI SSD). Thanks for pointing that out.

I think Apple has not kept the restore functionality you used up-to-date with the latest OS's. With OS versions prior to High Sierra, a simple exact byte-by-byte copy would be sufficient in a lot of cases. In my experience, that's not the case with the later OS versions - some adjustments need to be made when "cloning" the boot disk.