Posted on August 24, 2009 at 12:15 pm - by Corey DeGrandchamp
MacBook HDD Swap Weirdness
Alright…
Long story short.
I’ve got an original MacBook (white) with a broken CD/DVD drive, and I want to install Snow Leopard on Friday when it comes out.
I plan on buying a copy, but first I want to make sure I can upgrade somehow.
A co-worker of mine has a new uni-body MacBook, so I decided I should try putting my HDD into his MacBook and booting it today, just to make sure it goes without a hitch, and that way I could use his DVD drive to install the upgrade to Snow Leopard…
Well, here’s what happened when we tried booting.
Also note, there’s no Apple logo when it boots with this HDD?!?
The first time we tried it, it was stuck at “waiting for root device” and a reboot fixed it though, and it did the following.
Shutdown is weird too, also shown in the video.
