All,
I will make this short as possible, but please bare with me here. My daughter has a MacBook Pro A1708 with 256GB PCI drive installed. I wanted to upgrade her to a 1TB Rocket SSD using the NFHK adapter. Every video that I watched showed that I could simply put the new SSD into the adapter and slide into the PCIe slot and use Disk Utility to format and off I go. Not so much, not so much. First, I did a Time Machine backup of her drive as it was right before I swapped drives. When I booted into recovery, Disk Utility only saw the 2.01GB OS X Base system and not the newly installed SSD. I tried diskutil list with no success in Terminal. It would not be seen not matter what I did. So what I tried, was reinstall her drive, use a m.2 adapter and connect the drive to the laptop as an external drive.
Now, here is where I wonder where things are getting goofy. Her laptop came with Sierra. It was running Monterey at the time of this attempted SSD switch. When I would attempt Internet Recovery, it would say the installation was damaged and couldn't work. I used Active KillDisk to wipe the drive completely and I downloaded Monterey OS installer and then installed it onto the SSD as an external. I would then swap the drives and it would boot. However, whenever I migrated the date via the Time Machine Backup and rebooted, I would get the startup error where it doesn't recognize the drive. At first I migrated everything, including the system files. Then I reduced it to just applications, etc. to see if something was corrupting it. Finally, when I was about to lose my mind (if I hadn't already), when I got the startup error, I tried booting the drive and holding down the option key. Surprisingly, the drive was there and it booted. I was able to migrate the Time Machine successfully. Now, what is weird is that every so often, the drive won't show up and I'll still get the startup error. Also, i can shut the device down using shut down without issue. However, if I click restart, the device won't restart at all. It just sits off. Sometimes If I press the power button, i will get the startup error. And even holding the option key it doesn't even show the OS drive.
I am just trying to get her more storage before she heads back to college, and she will not tolerate what I have the last few days. Any suggestions on what I can do or look at to see what may be the issue? I have reset the NVRAM and even upgraded to 12.5 Monterey. Would the difference between the original Sierra and new Monterey be causing issues? This is the Sabrent 1TB M.2 2240 SSD which is the ones I have seen work without issue online.
Thank you for any help.
I will make this short as possible, but please bare with me here. My daughter has a MacBook Pro A1708 with 256GB PCI drive installed. I wanted to upgrade her to a 1TB Rocket SSD using the NFHK adapter. Every video that I watched showed that I could simply put the new SSD into the adapter and slide into the PCIe slot and use Disk Utility to format and off I go. Not so much, not so much. First, I did a Time Machine backup of her drive as it was right before I swapped drives. When I booted into recovery, Disk Utility only saw the 2.01GB OS X Base system and not the newly installed SSD. I tried diskutil list with no success in Terminal. It would not be seen not matter what I did. So what I tried, was reinstall her drive, use a m.2 adapter and connect the drive to the laptop as an external drive.
Now, here is where I wonder where things are getting goofy. Her laptop came with Sierra. It was running Monterey at the time of this attempted SSD switch. When I would attempt Internet Recovery, it would say the installation was damaged and couldn't work. I used Active KillDisk to wipe the drive completely and I downloaded Monterey OS installer and then installed it onto the SSD as an external. I would then swap the drives and it would boot. However, whenever I migrated the date via the Time Machine Backup and rebooted, I would get the startup error where it doesn't recognize the drive. At first I migrated everything, including the system files. Then I reduced it to just applications, etc. to see if something was corrupting it. Finally, when I was about to lose my mind (if I hadn't already), when I got the startup error, I tried booting the drive and holding down the option key. Surprisingly, the drive was there and it booted. I was able to migrate the Time Machine successfully. Now, what is weird is that every so often, the drive won't show up and I'll still get the startup error. Also, i can shut the device down using shut down without issue. However, if I click restart, the device won't restart at all. It just sits off. Sometimes If I press the power button, i will get the startup error. And even holding the option key it doesn't even show the OS drive.
I am just trying to get her more storage before she heads back to college, and she will not tolerate what I have the last few days. Any suggestions on what I can do or look at to see what may be the issue? I have reset the NVRAM and even upgraded to 12.5 Monterey. Would the difference between the original Sierra and new Monterey be causing issues? This is the Sabrent 1TB M.2 2240 SSD which is the ones I have seen work without issue online.
Thank you for any help.
