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I have a Macbook Pro with a 250 GB SSD hard drive (Macbook retina Mid 2012 i7) and a Macbook air with 120 GB SSD hard drive (Mid 2012 Intel Core i5).
I would like to move the swap the hard drives if the hardware is compatible.
Is this possible? Is it just a matter of opening the machines and swapping the hard drives?
It doesn't work
My Pentalobe and Torx bits arrived today and I tried swapping the drives. When I put the 256 GB drive in my Macbook Pro, it doesn't boot and displays this image
I tried holding down opt to boot to a usb drive and do a fresh install of Mavericks on the drive.
When I attempt to boot from the USB drive, the crossed out circle image is displayed again.
I've also tried holding down shift during boot to boot into safe mode. The neutral gray screen displays for a longer time, but eventually the crossed out circle appears again.
Yes, it is possible to replace the optical drive with hard drive / SSD. You can follow this guide.
Best Answer
As far as I can see both MacBook's using different SSD's. Take a look on iFixit.com and the image taken from the tutorial
MacBook Air 13" Mid 2012 Solid-State Drive
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MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display Mid 2012 SSD
MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display Mid 2012 SSD Replacement MacBook Air 13" Mid 2012 Solid-State Drive Replacement
I guess it would be much easier and faster using Time Machine, Superduper, Disk Utility, CCC...