We’ve got, this was an SSD recovery let me go back and show you this right here. This is the SSDs that the Macs are using MacBook Pro, Airs they are proprietary. This connection here is proprietary it’s not something just generic as far as proprietary connections I have identified three. This specimen came in with this drive which I should have done a recovery for it. I said sure we got Macs here in the house, the easiest way to do it is to actually is to just grab a Mac and put it on there and we had three different ones.

We had a MacBook Air, we had a couple of MacBook Pros here, I had my MacBook Air as well so the first two we just didn’t work. We finally got this MacBook Pro late model and this one does have the same connector and this is the customer’s drive right there. So this is the easiest way to do it. There are some external adaptors and we actually had an external adaptor, it did not work they are very tricky and basically bottom line if you are going to do this you are just going to find yourself a Mac that is compatible.

Unfortunately, in this case it did not boot. so what you’re going to do in that case if it does not boot you want to have yourself an external drive. typically with the operating system on it like we have here. I know some of these videos that I do show a lot of software and tools. If you don’t have these things you just can’t do it. Connected  here, we boot it up to this OS. Then we go to the disk utility. It’s not there, the only hard drive that’s present is the external one. So unfortunately, in this case this SSD looks like its kind of dead or actually dead.

So just a couple of tips on these hard drives. Also if you are going to do an upgrade you have to make sure you got the right version. You just can’t buy MacPro, MacAir SSD drive you got make sure you got the right one. Look up the right serial number online. And put a link on the bottom of this page for where go with your serial number. It will give you all the specs of your Mac. You’re able to order whether it be an SSD or any other part they are pretty tricky. So that’s what’s going on here today at PC 911

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