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My MacBook Pro A1286. I changed the HDD. I tried to install OSX through the Internet recovery mode. That GLOBE not spinning. It’s stuck in internet recovery mode. HELP
For starters depending on the age of your system and the version of OS-X it had on it before you took the drive out of your system, it may not have Internet recovery as an option. You stated you took your systems drive out and placed is new drive in your system. Was the original drive working? If it was we’ll need to put it back in so we can leverage its OS and tools to prep your new drive. Here we would use a USB to SATA adapter to connect your new drive to your system StarTech 2.5" SATA to USB adapter cable. Then we can use Disk Utility to properly format the drive for MacOS. First deleting the partitions and then formatting the drive to GUID with a journaled file system (HFS+). The next step is to run the OS installer of the MacOS your system is able to support. If you have a newer model then you should be able to install How to upgrade to macOS Sierra. Jump down to Step 4 to get the needed file. Apple’s certificates expired in the older versions so you need this one. Here’s more on the certificate issue If you’ve got an old macOS install image, it will probably stop working today Now you still might have a hardware issue as one of the issues the 13” MacBook Pro’s had was the SATA cable breaking down until you tell us your exact model I can’t guide you to whats needed here. Update (11/07/2019) OK, with the model info I can give you a bit more here. First your system is only SATA II (3.0 gb/s) so the drive you put in must be able to support this I/O speed. Review your drives spec sheet to make sure SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) is listed if not don’t use it! As an example here two SSD drives: Crucial MX500 SSDSamsung 860 EVO SSD Here you can see the Crucial drive is a fixed speed SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) drive unlike the Samsung 860 EVO SSD is what we call an auto sense drive supporting SATA I, II & III systems matching the drives I/O speed to what the system needs. As far as the issue I spoke about on the SATA cable. You’ll likely want to replace it MacBook Pro 15" Unibody (Mid 2009-Late 2011) Hard Drive Cable and I do recommend you place a strip of electricians tape under it to help protect it from the rough aluminum surface. Here’s a bit more on this issue Your Hard Drive Cable Is A Ticking Time Bomb. You also don’t want to crease the cable! This tends to damage it! Instead I use a BIC pens Ink straw to help me form a nice radius at the corners.
Had the similar issues. Just do a SMC reset and try again.
