Tried upgrading my late 2011 Macbook Pro to an SSD, but

[Dorian Breh]

The shyt doesn’t show up. Connected it to the SATA connector where my old drive was, but I hadn’t initialized it with an enclosure. This shyt refuses to even show up in disk utility in Recovery Mode, as well as disk utlity in an external High Sierra boot disk. Even the device won’t show up so I can format it. Is it the SATA cable to blame, brehs? How to I get this shyt running?

 

[1970s HeRon Flow]

Throw that old shyt away

 

[Dorian Breh]

Throw that old shyt away

I got a 2016 joint but I like having the old one around for torrents, breh, help me

 

[smoove157]

The shyt doesn’t show up. Connected it to the SATA connector where my old drive was, but I hadn’t initialized it with an enclosure. This shyt refuses to even show up in disk utility in Recovery Mode, as well as disk utlity in an external High Sierra boot disk. Even the device won’t show up so I can format it. Is it the SATA cable to blame, brehs? How to I get this shyt running?

pull the drive and put the old HDD back in. use a clone tool and move everything over to the SSD. when you put it back in everything will be straight

 

[Dorian Breh]

pull the drive and put the old HDD back in. use a clone tool and move everything over to the SSD. when you put it back in everything will be straight

There’s no way to do it without the enclosure? And what’s a good enclosure to get?

 

[smoove157]

There’s no way to do it without the enclosure? And what’s a good enclosure to get?

you don't need the enclosure at all.

get a USB to SATA cable, that will take care of it