Make sure you back up any critical data before proceeding with this project!) Remove Your Laptop Hard Drive Click the wrong button, remove it from a computer unsafely, or spill coffee on it–things can happen. (A quick note of caution: Although the process is easy, there is always a risk when you remove a hard drive and mount it elsewhere.
What I wanted to do was plug my hard drive into my Mac, fire it up, and have it be like I’m sitting in front of my old laptop, but you know, not have to keep my old laptop around. During formatting and installation, OSX 10.7.5 is automatically installed can’t do anything about it! I wanted to install High Sierra it wouldn’t allow me until I installed.In an effort to reduce the amount of physical stuff I have, I had a thought: what If I could just take my Windows 10 laptop, remove the hard drive, and boot it on my Mac Mini? I’m not talking about installing Windows 10 on a Mac Using Boot Camp or installing a fresh Windows 10 VM on a Mac.
Click on the hardware info line for your hard drive, then click the Partition tab. Boot to your OS X installer, then choose the Disk Utility from the menus.In regards to the Internet Recovery method, mentioned in the comments, that will recover you to the OS that was last installed on the Mac, not install a new one.Power on the Mac while holding down the 'Option' key. If OS 10.6.8 or earlier is installed, you can use the original OS install discs that came with the computer. After you install the new hard drive, you will need to boot to the recovery partition on the original drive if OS 10.7 or later is installed.If you have another Mac around you can use this kind of install from a bootable usb. You can 'pop in' your ssd and buy the disk of Mac OS Snow Leopard or Lion and do the install or you can do a internet recovery following the instruction from Apple.In this article, I’ll walk you through the requirements and steps to install OS X onto an external hard drive.
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