“I purchased this HD, but am having trouble installing it on my mac book pro. The only thing ir gives you, is to reinstall ox.x lion, 2hich is super old. I click on it to install and it says its unavailable... any answers?”
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You'll need to partition your disk. After booting from the recovery media, there should be a "tools" menu where you can open "Disk Utility". Once there, you'll be able to partition your disk as GUID HFS+. After that, you'll be able to install the OS.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I reinstalled it on a Mid 2012 MBP i7 2.3Ghz. I read a lot of forums explaining the process and here's what I had to do to get Mac OS Sierra installed on it. 1. Get an external flash drive or hard drive that's big enough to backup your entire hard drive on your MBP. (Mine was fairly new, so it only had 22GB to backup). Then use TimeMachine to backup your current hard drive to the external one. 2. Download Mac OS Sierra from the Apple App Store. It will automatically try to launch the installer. Just close out of it, DO NOT INSTALL or you will lose it. Mac OS Sierra will download to your Applications folder. Get a new flash drive (mine was 16GB) and you have to format it. Then drag and drop Mac OS Sierra from your Apps folder onto the flash drive. 3. Wipe your old hard drive while it's still in the MBP so you can get all your info off of it. What I did was restart the mac and hold down Command & R at the same time until you see the Apple logo. Then go to Disk Utilities and wipe the drive. You click Erase and then set it to "something something (Journaled)" and like "Guild" or something, and then hit erase. I don't remember the exact wording, but there's a dropdown menu and you'll see what I'm talking about. After the drive is wiped you'll have to restart the mac again so you can reinstall Mac OS Sierra on your old drive. Make sure you have that flash drive in plugged in before you restart the mac (the one with Mac OS Sierra). Then when you restart it, hold down the Control key (i'm pretty sure it's Control), hold it down until you see the Apple logo. Then you will be able to install Mac OS Sierra on your hard drive. This is nice to do for whoever will be using the drive after you, or if you use it on another computer. 4. Shutdown your laptop and switch out the old hard drive for the Samsung Evo 850 SSD. Put everything back together and when you turn on your laptop, hold down the Control key until you see the Apple logo (you're going to install the Mac OS Sierra from that flash drive again, just like you did on your old hard drive). Once you have Mac OS Sierra installed, you can plug in the external hard drive that you backed up your old hard drive on using TimeMachine, and use it to get all your old info onto your new hard drive.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Download the Samsung software "transfer" software. It will move your full HDD onto the SSD. Simply swap out and you are int business.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.You need to format the new Drive first after installing it in your MacBook. Then the MacBook will be able to recognize the Drive and let you restore from time machine
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.You should try hooking it up as an external drive and try formatting it from your operating system. Try formatting as FAT32. You can buy a transfer kit from best buy for this. Look for Apricorn - Data Transfer Cable - Gray.
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