My daughter's MBP recently had a hard drive failure. I replaced the hard drive and purchased the Snow Leopard install disc from Apple.
During the install start up, at a certain point the screen goes white and after a bit the fans go to a high speed. It then sits there running hot until it is powered down.
Things I have tried:
With a Crucial MX300 SSD (525GB, SATA III) installed:
- Install using the Snow Leopard disc Install using Yosemite on USB thumb drive (from App Store)
- Install using High Sierra on USB thumb drive (from App Store)
- Install using Internet Recovery (Command—Option—R)
With a HGST Travelstar 7K1000 (1TB, SATA III) installed:
- Install using Yosemite on USB thumb drive (from App Store)
- Install using Internet Recovery (Command—Option—R)
Original System Details
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)
- 2.0 GHz Intel Core i7 (Sandy Bridge) 2635QM
- 8GB RAM
- 500 GB, 5400 RPM Hitachi HD
- 10.6.6 Snow Leopard
Other notes
Booting in verbose mode (Command-V) shows various messages before the white screen depending on which install version is used.
The extended version of the hardware test over internet (Option—D) reports no issues.
The MBP was working fine before the hard drive failure.
I am pretty much out of ideas.
Best Answer
I would take the new drive to another Mac and run the installer there.
You'll know soon what the weak link is with perhaps an inexpensive USB to SATA adapter.
Assuming you have the resources for that, I'd probably have that Machine download Sierra and make a bootable USB installer and just use Sierra to wipe and reinstall the OS on your daughter's Mac (or her hard drive connected to the other Mac).