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CheekySpoon
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Late 2008 Aluminum MacBook Won't Boot from WD5000BEVT Drive

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‎08-15-2010 12:43 PM

I'm trying to upgrade my hard drive, but my macbook will not boot to the new hard drive. I have erased and cloned the hard drive about three times now, using both Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper. It won't boot while it is in the macbook and it won't boot from an external hard drive case. All I get to is the screen with the mac logo and the spinning wheel. I have made sure the drive is GUID formatted, but it still doesn't work. When I put the new drive in an external case and plug it into the USB port of my macbook I can see and access everything on the drive. Can somebody please tell what I am doing wrong?

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Starfall
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Registered: ‎08-22-2010
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Re: Late 2008 Aluminum MacBook Won't Boot from WD5000BEVT Drive

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‎08-22-2010 07:59 PM - edited ‎08-22-2010 08:01 PM

Have you tried a clean MacOSX install on the new drive, then migrating your proflie, applications, and all other files from the old disk? That's what I did with my new WD10TPVT drive, and it works like a charm now. 

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