Preparing Hard Drive How To Setup The

If it does not show up, then either there is a problem with the drive, its compatibility with your Mac, or with the installation (contact us if you get stuck).

Sameday fitting is available for most items, contact us for details.

We also offer on site installation services and training on your premises.

We offer all of our upgrade services, and most of our repair services too.

This brings up System Profiler, and on the Hardware Overview that is displayed by default you should see your serial number, and be able to copypaste it.

The procedure does vary slightly between different versions of OSX.

Here are the main locations of serial numbers on Apple computers.

To lift keyboard, pull back on the release tabs between the F-keys.

You can use the drop-down menus above to be taken to a page that displays upgrades specifically for your exact model.

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Preparing Hard Drive How To Setup The

Youve viewed the installation videos on your machines page (select your Mac to see these) fitted the new drive and now you are wondering how to setup the new drive for use.

This page deals with 2011 and later machines with Internet Recovery only.

If your machine is earlier than 2011 see the appropriate page here.

By all means try this method first (follow the instructions for the 2011 machines), but be prepared for it not to work and having to fall back on the earlier method.

To do this there is a key combination which you press on the keyboard (and continue to hold) while turning on the machine.

There are a number of different key combination options (which you can see on the Apple website here ) but we will cover what is usually the most useful, which is to install the highest operating system available for your machine.

This allows you to install the Mac operating system, or restore from Time Machine.

You wont be able to proceed yet as you will need to prepare your new internal drive for use.

This process is called formatting but Apple use the term Erase.

This essentially sets up the drive ready for the operating system to be installed.

In order to see the full information and choose the correct part to erase, click on the View button, and choose Show All Devices.

The text that is show is the drives description, and it should match the size of drive you are expecting.

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