A friend's Macbook Pro started booting to a screen with a folder and a question mark. He decided it was the hard drive and wanted to replace it with an SSD, but he wasn't comfortable installing it. Now, I've never worked with a Mac but figured it couldn't be that complicated (famous last words).
So we got a new Samsung EVO 840, installed it (this was extremely easy).
Now, I thought I might be able to boot from the online recovery. When I start it up the new SSD isn't recognized in the disk manager. After doing some reading I realized it needs to be formatted before it will be recognized.
So I tried to make a USB recovery from the Mavericks installer from a different Macbook. I formatted it journaled, restored with the Mac OSX Install ESO (From InstallESD.dmg). Now, I plug the USB drive in, hold the command key upon boot, and no USB drive is detected.
Soooo... I obviously haven't figured out how to do this. Can anyone give me any guidance on this?
So we got a new Samsung EVO 840, installed it (this was extremely easy).
Now, I thought I might be able to boot from the online recovery. When I start it up the new SSD isn't recognized in the disk manager. After doing some reading I realized it needs to be formatted before it will be recognized.
So I tried to make a USB recovery from the Mavericks installer from a different Macbook. I formatted it journaled, restored with the Mac OSX Install ESO (From InstallESD.dmg). Now, I plug the USB drive in, hold the command key upon boot, and no USB drive is detected.
Soooo... I obviously haven't figured out how to do this. Can anyone give me any guidance on this?