The tools provided are of good enough quality even though i used another set of screwdrivers.
personally i didn't take te risk to fold it, i just put the screws in their holes so they are here if i needed one day and then let the cable pass from the top part of the superdrive to the bottom of the hdd/sdd, i feel like it's less risky for it to get damaged again. Just a little precision, the original cable is folded to fit between the superdrive and hard drive shapes, with two tiny screws in this area. replaced the hard drive by a ssd at the same time and installed the (natively unsupported) macOS catalina, the mac just got a second life! :-) once this part replaced (search for the ifixit tutorial on google on how to change this part) everything went fine. the hard drive was still working when put in an external enclosure. Saved a macbook pro i had my hands on, the hard drive wasn't recognized (even in the disk utils in recovery mode - the hardware test saying everything was fine on the computer) because this part certainly broke after the computer fell. Great life saving, reasonably priced bit of kit! Man it's amazing how slow a mechanical drive is once you're used to SSD!! So glad to get this sorted.
Install successful and new MacBook living up to its fully potential. So with nothing to loose, I bought this kit.Īfter a 10 minute install, I was up and running, SSD recognised and was installing Mac OS. Seems the SATA cable that connects the drive to the logic board can fail over time or even if it works with a HDD, is unable to deal with the increased throughput from a faster SSD. The weird thing was that every time I put the original mechanical HDD back in, the MacBook would start fine.Īfter much confusion, frustration and googling, I fould that a lot of other people had similar problems with 2012 MacBooks. The SSD would format fine in an external caddy but every time installed it into my new MacBook and I tried to install Mac OS via a bootable USB stick, the MacBook would either not recognise the SSD or if I did manage to get it to be recognised, the install either failed or the one time I did get it to install, it wouldn't start and instead gave 'flashing folder' (is not found) errors.
RAM installed I set about trying to install a new SSD. It was good deal but needed an SSD and a RAM upgrade to bring it up to speed. I bought a secondhand MacBook Pro 2012 13" to replace my recently dead 2011.
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