I am working as a system admin in a corporate company. Today I got one ticket from HR. HR is using MacBook Pro having a 100 GB harddisk. He needs to upgrade the harddisk from 100 to 500 GB. What I did at the moment is that I have the same MacBook Pro with 500 GB harddisk. I exchanged the harddisks for both the Mac in the live state that means on the state I didn't shut down both Macs.
After exchanging harddisks neither of the Mac boot. Is it possible to install new os for two Mac hard drives.
Best Answer
I'd suggest putting both the harddisks back into the devices they were originally in and try booting again. Make sure the laptops are plugged in when you do this. If that doesn't work, it's very possible you've damaged the disks by trying to pull them out while the laptops were running.
If it does work, then I'd use time machine to create a backup of the 100GB disk you're replacing on an external USB drive. Then, after that's complete, power off the laptop, replace the disk with a new one, then follow the steps here to "Restore from a Time Machine Backup".
To be clear, this is assuming these are older MacBook Pro's with removable harddisks, not the solid-state drives that are soldered onto the motherboards. Those cannot be removed or replaced, at least not without permanently destroying the entire machine.