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I have a MBP17 with an SSD (Sierra) which I want to switch with my husband's MBP13 for work related reasons.
Would taking out the SSD (OS and files intact) from the MBP17 and placing it in the MBP13 without re-installing anything render any problems? Meaning is the harddrive linked to an installation in any way, leading me to have to re-install Mac on the SSD before I can use the MBP13?
Would it matter that the MBP13 is still on El Capitan and the MBP17 on Sierra?
The problem seems to be only with that particular SSD and Mac OS X, because it works with other SSDs. My feeling is that garbage collection or TRIM are to be blame in this case. TRIM is disabled by Apple for third party drives and ADATA SSD I had didn't have any inbuilt garbage collection.
Bought a Samsung EVO now, it has inbuilt garbage collection and doesn't necessarily need TRIM. If you have an SSD which can't do garbage collection, there are options to enable TRIM on Mac OS X, look for them and enable TRIM.
No, you need disk or USB stick to install it.
Why can't you use a USB stick? If that's because you can't buy it from Apple Store, you could use any 8GB+ stick to install drive.
It's very simple, you only need an Install OSX *version*.app file and a USB stick.
External label)GUID Partition Map under Scheme, OS X Extended (Journaled) under Format, and name it OSXInstall (You can give it any name, but you'll need to change terminal commands too)Click on Erase
For El Capitan open this link, and download it (You may need to click on View in Mac App Store
You do not need to install it, just download.
Copy and paste this text into Terminal and hit Return:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/OSXInstall --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app --nointeraction
Type you password (It would be hidden, and cursor would not move)
Done.To boot from the installer stick, hold down the Option key during Mac system start, and select it from the startup volume menu.
Best Answer
This shouldn't be a problem. I have done similar things both with an external disk and an internal disk. The first boot may take a very long time, but it is working — leave it to do its thing. Of course, double check your backups before performing something like this.