Internet recovery is offering you the older macOS release which has issues with the newer macOS's This gets into the file system structure from the older HFS+ vs APFS, macOS 10.13 is the edge case! when the file system flipped between the two. A HDD which was upgraded year to year would still be HFS+ unless you altered the file system within Disk Utility. A SSD drive would be magically upgraded to APFS.
Now you need to work around what Internet recovery does as its not going to properly prep the drive (as you encountered)
But! Before we get into the OS aspects we need to deal with one more hardware fix! This series (all 2011 13/15" systems) where sold with SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) HDD's and the HD SATA cable was only qualified for SATA II throughput. Later systems got a SATA III (6.0 gb/s) HDD but it still wasn't pushing the throughput of the HD cable that hard. Todays SSD's on the other hand are like a firehose! and the older cables just can't support the throughput causing serious errors which causes the system to chew on its self overheating in the process!
To add more to this Apple has some problems with the cables! [link|https://beetstech.com/blog/prevent-a1278-mid-2012-hard-drive-cable-failure|Your Hard Drive Cable Is A Ticking Time Bomb] and the roughness of the uppercase didn't help matters as the machining was not that good. So you need to upgrade the cable and apply a single strip of electricians tape as described to help protect the cable from chaffing on the aluminum. Here's the needed cable [product|IF161-086] grab a new one before its too late as once they are gone thats it! And here's the guide [guide|5894]
But before you put it in... we have one more issue! Many people kill the new cable in putting it in! There are fine foil wires within the cable and creasing the cable damages them! We want a smooth radius bend where the cable needs to bend around a corner. I use an old BIC pen ink straw as my forming brake (no ink inside) as the diameter of the straw is the limit of the curve we want, nothing tighter!
***OK back to the OS once you've replaced the cable!***
Here we need to make a bootable OS installer thumb drive, find a 32GB drive which you can use (make sure nothing is on it) Using Disk Utility we want to format it for GUID and a Journaled File System (now called Mac OS Extended). Then we want to download from here [link|https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683|How to get old versions of macOS] the macOS you want to use (and is supported on your system. Technically macOS Mojave 10.14.x) Then following this guide [link|https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372|How to create a bootable installer for macOS]
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Now with your bootable OS installer you should be able to book up and using the Disk Utility within it format your internally mounted SSD and install the OS. Once it is setup you can then migrate your old HDD's stuff over to your new drive using a SATA to USB adapter or HD case to hold your drive (USB, FireWire or Thunderbolt). This is what I use [link|https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb|USB 3.0 (5Gbps) Adapter Cable for 2.5" SATA Drives to USB-A]
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Now with your bootable OS installer you should be able to boot-up your system and using the Disk Utility within it format your internally mounted SSD and install the OS.
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Once it is setup you can then migrate your old HDD's stuff over to your new drive using a SATA to USB adapter or HD case to hold your drive (USB, FireWire or Thunderbolt). This is what I use [link|https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb|USB 3.0 (5Gbps) Adapter Cable for 2.5" SATA Drives to USB-A]
Internet recovery is offering you the older macOS release which has issues with the newer macOS's This gets into the file system structure from the older HFS+ vs APFS, macOS 10.13 is the edge case! when the file system flipped between the two. A HDD which was upgraded year to year would still be HFS+ unless you altered the file system within Disk Utility. A SSD drive would be magically upgraded to APFS.
Now you need to work around what Internet recovery does as its not going to properly prep the drive (as you encountered)
But! Before we get into the OS aspects we need to deal with one more hardware fix! This series (all 2011 13/15" systems) where sold with SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) HDD's and the HD SATA cable was only qualified for SATA II throughput. Later systems got a SATA III (6.0 gb/s) HDD but it still wasn't pushing the throughput of the HD cable that hard. Todays SSD's on the other hand are like a firehose! and the older cables just can't support the throughput causing serious errors which causes the system to chew on its self overheating in the process!
To add more to this Apple has some problems with the cables! [link|https://beetstech.com/blog/prevent-a1278-mid-2012-hard-drive-cable-failure|Your Hard Drive Cable Is A Ticking Time Bomb] and the roughness of the uppercase didn't help matters as the machining was not that good. So you need to upgrade the cable and apply a single strip of electricians tape as described to help protect the cable from chaffing on the aluminum. Here's the needed cable [product|IF161-086] grab a new one before its too late as once they are gone thats it! And here's the guide [guide|5894]
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But before you put it in... we have one more issue! Many people kill the new cable in putting it in! There are fine foil wires within the cable and creasing the cable damages them! We want a smooth radius bend where the cable needs to bend around a corner. I use an old BIC pen ink straw as my forming break (no ink inside) as the diameter of the straw is the limit of the curve we want, nothing tighter!
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But before you put it in... we have one more issue! Many people kill the new cable in putting it in! There are fine foil wires within the cable and creasing the cable damages them! We want a smooth radius bend where the cable needs to bend around a corner. I use an old BIC pen ink straw as my forming brake (no ink inside) as the diameter of the straw is the limit of the curve we want, nothing tighter!
***OK back to the OS once you've replaced the cable!***
Here we need to make a bootable OS installer thumb drive, find a 32GB drive which you can use (make sure nothing is on it) Using Disk Utility we want to format it for GUID and a Journaled File System (now called Mac OS Extended). Then we want to download from here [link|https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683|How to get old versions of macOS] the macOS you want to use (and is supported on your system. Technically macOS Mojave 10.14.x) Then following this guide [link|https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372|How to create a bootable installer for macOS]
Now with your bootable OS installer you should be able to book up and using the Disk Utility within it format your internally mounted SSD and install the OS. Once it is setup you can then migrate your old HDD's stuff over to your new drive using a SATA to USB adapter or HD case to hold your drive (USB, FireWire or Thunderbolt). This is what I use [link|https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb|USB 3.0 (5Gbps) Adapter Cable for 2.5" SATA Drives to USB-A]
Internet recovery is offering you the older macOS release which has issues with the newer macOS's This gets into the the file system structure from the older HFS+ vs APFS. 10.13 is the edge case! when the file system flipped between the two. A HDD which was upgraded year to year would still be HFS+ unless you altered the file system within Disk Utility. A SSD drive would be magically upgraded to APFS.
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Internet recovery is offering you the older macOS release which has issues with the newer macOS's This gets into the file system structure from the older HFS+ vs APFS, macOS 10.13 is the edge case! when the file system flipped between the two. A HDD which was upgraded year to year would still be HFS+ unless you altered the file system within Disk Utility. A SSD drive would be magically upgraded to APFS.
Now you need to work around what Internet recovery does as its not going to properly prep the drive (as you encountered)
But! Before we get into the OS aspects we need to deal with one more hardware fix! This series (all 2011 13/15" systems) where sold with SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) HDD's and the HD SATA cable was only qualified for SATA II throughput. Later systems got a SATA III (6.0 gb/s) HDD but it still wasn't pushing the throughput of the HD cable that hard. Todays SSD's on the other hand are like a firehose! and the older cables just can't support the throughput causing serious errors which causes the system to chew on its self overheating in the process!
To add more to this Apple has some problems with the cables! [link|https://beetstech.com/blog/prevent-a1278-mid-2012-hard-drive-cable-failure|Your Hard Drive Cable Is A Ticking Time Bomb] and the roughness of the uppercase didn't help matters as the machining was not that good. So you need to upgrade the cable and apply a single strip of electricians tape as described to help protect the cable from chaffing on the aluminum. Here's the needed cable [product|IF161-086] grab a new one before its too late as once they are gone thats it! And here's the guide [guide|5894]
But before you put it in... we have one more issue! Many people kill the new cable in putting it in! There are fine foil wires within the cable and creasing the cable damages them! We want a smooth radius bend where the cable needs to bend around a corner. I use an old BIC pen ink straw as my forming break (no ink inside) as the diameter of the straw is the limit of the curve we want, nothing tighter!
***OK back to the OS once you've replaced the cable!***
Here we need to make a bootable OS installer thumb drive, find a 32GB drive which you can use (make sure nothing is on it) Using Disk Utility we want to format it for GUID and a Journaled File System (now called Mac OS Extended). Then we want to download from here [link|https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683|How to get old versions of macOS] the macOS you want to use (and is supported on your system. Technically macOS Mojave 10.14.x) Then following this guide [link|https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372|How to create a bootable installer for macOS]
Now with your bootable OS installer you should be able to book up and using the Disk Utility within it format your internally mounted SSD and install the OS. Once it is setup you can then migrate your old HDD's stuff over to your new drive using a SATA to USB adapter or HD case to hold your drive (USB, FireWire or Thunderbolt). This is what I use [link|https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb|USB 3.0 (5Gbps) Adapter Cable for 2.5" SATA Drives to USB-A]
Internet recovery is offering you the older macOS release which has issues with the newer macOS's This gets into the the file system structure from the older HFS+ vs APFS. 10.13 is the edge case! when the file system flipped between the two. A HDD which was upgraded year to year would still be HFS+ unless you altered the file system within Disk Utility. A SSD drive would be magically upgraded to APFS.
Now you need to work around what Internet recovery does as its not going to properly prep the drive (as you encountered)
But! Before we get into the OS aspects we need to deal with one more hardware fix! This series (all 2011 13/15" systems) where sold with SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) HDD's and the HD SATA cable was only qualified for SATA II throughput. Later systems got a SATA III (6.0 gb/s) HDD but it still wasn't pushing the throughput of the HD cable that hard. Todays SSD's on the other hand are like a firehose! and the older cables just can't support the throughput causing serious errors which causes the system to chew on its self overheating in the process!
To add more to this Apple has some problems with the cables! [link|https://beetstech.com/blog/prevent-a1278-mid-2012-hard-drive-cable-failure|Your Hard Drive Cable Is A Ticking Time Bomb] and the roughness of the uppercase didn't help matters as the machining was not that good. So you need to upgrade the cable and apply a single strip of electricians tape as described to help protect the cable from chaffing on the aluminum. Here's the needed cable [product|IF161-086] grab a new one before its too late as once they are gone thats it! And here's the guide [guide|5894]
But before you put it in... we have one more issue! Many people kill the new cable in putting it in! There are fine foil wires within the cable and creasing the cable damages them! We want a smooth radius bend where the cable needs to bend around a corner. I use an old BIC pen ink straw as my forming break (no ink inside) as the diameter of the straw is the limit of the curve we want, nothing tighter!
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OK back to the OS once you've replaced the cable!
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***OK back to the OS once you've replaced the cable!***
Here we need to make a bootable OS installer thumb drive, find a 32GB drive which you can use (make sure nothing is on it) Using Disk Utility we want to format it for GUID and a Journaled File System (now called Mac OS Extended). Then we want to download from here [link|https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683|How to get old versions of macOS] the macOS you want to use (and is supported on your system. Technically macOS Mojave 10.14.x) Then following this guide [link|https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372|How to create a bootable installer for macOS]
Now with your bootable OS installer you should be able to book up and using the Disk Utility within it format your internally mounted SSD and install the OS. Once it is setup you can then migrate your old HDD's stuff over to your new drive using a SATA to USB adapter or HD case to hold your drive (USB, FireWire or Thunderbolt). This is what I use [link|https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb|USB 3.0 (5Gbps) Adapter Cable for 2.5" SATA Drives to USB-A]
Internet recovery is offering you the older macOS release which has issues with the newer macOS's This gets into the the file system structure from the older HFS+ vs APFS. 10.13 is the edge case! when the file system flipped between the two. A HDD which was upgraded year to year would still be HFS+ unless you altered the file system within Disk Utility. A SSD drive would be magically upgraded to APFS.
Now you need to work around what Internet recovery does as its not going to properly prep the drive (as you encountered)
But! Before we get into the OS aspects we need to deal with one more hardware fix! This series (all 2011 13/15" systems) where sold with SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) HDD's and the HD SATA cable was only qualified for SATA II throughput. Later systems got a SATA III (6.0 gb/s) HDD but it still wasn't pushing the throughput of the HD cable that hard. Todays SSD's on the other hand are like a firehose! and the older cables just can't support the throughput causing serious errors which causes the system to chew on its self overheating in the process!
To add more to this Apple has some problems with the cables! [link|https://beetstech.com/blog/prevent-a1278-mid-2012-hard-drive-cable-failure|Your Hard Drive Cable Is A Ticking Time Bomb] and the roughness of the uppercase didn't help matters as the machining was not that good. So you need to upgrade the cable and apply a single strip of electricians tape as described to help protect the cable from chaffing on the aluminum. Here's the needed cable [product|IF161-086] grab a new one before its too late as once they are gone thats it! And here's the guide [guide|5894]
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But before you put it in... we have one more issue! Many people kill the new cable in putting it in! There are fine foil wires within the cable and creasing the cable damages them! we want a smooth radius bend where the cable needs to bend around a corner. I use an old BIC pen ink straw as my forming break (no ink inside) as the diameter of the straw is the limit of the curve we want, nothing tighter!
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But before you put it in... we have one more issue! Many people kill the new cable in putting it in! There are fine foil wires within the cable and creasing the cable damages them! We want a smooth radius bend where the cable needs to bend around a corner. I use an old BIC pen ink straw as my forming break (no ink inside) as the diameter of the straw is the limit of the curve we want, nothing tighter!
OK back to the OS once you've replaced the cable!
Here we need to make a bootable OS installer thumb drive, find a 32GB drive which you can use (make sure nothing is on it) Using Disk Utility we want to format it for GUID and a Journaled File System (now called Mac OS Extended). Then we want to download from here [link|https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683|How to get old versions of macOS] the macOS you want to use (and is supported on your system. Technically macOS Mojave 10.14.x) Then following this guide [link|https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372|How to create a bootable installer for macOS]
Now with your bootable OS installer you should be able to book up and using the Disk Utility within it format your internally mounted SSD and install the OS. Once it is setup you can then migrate your old HDD's stuff over to your new drive using a SATA to USB adapter or HD case to hold your drive (USB, FireWire or Thunderbolt). This is what I use [link|https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb|USB 3.0 (5Gbps) Adapter Cable for 2.5" SATA Drives to USB-A]
Internet recovery is offering you the older macOS release which has issues with the newer macOS's This gets into the the file system structure from the older HFS+ vs APFS. 10.13 is the edge case! when the file system flipped between the two. A HDD which was upgraded year to year would still be HFS+ unless you altered the file system for within Disk Utility. A SSD drive would be magically upgraded to APFS.
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Internet recovery is offering you the older macOS release which has issues with the newer macOS's This gets into the the file system structure from the older HFS+ vs APFS. 10.13 is the edge case! when the file system flipped between the two. A HDD which was upgraded year to year would still be HFS+ unless you altered the file system within Disk Utility. A SSD drive would be magically upgraded to APFS.
Now you need to work around what Internet recovery does as its not going to properly prep the drive (as you encountered)
But! Before we get into the OS aspects we need to deal with one more hardware fix! This series (all 2011 13/15" systems) where sold with SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) HDD's and the HD SATA cable was only qualified for SATA II throughput. Later systems got a SATA III (6.0 gb/s) HDD but it still wasn't pushing the throughput of the HD cable that hard. Todays SSD's on the other hand are like a firehose! and the older cables just can't support the throughput causing serious errors which causes the system to chew on its self overheating in the process!
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To add more to this Apple has some problems with the cables! [https://beetstech.com/blog/prevent-a1278-mid-2012-hard-drive-cable-failure|Your Hard Drive Cable Is A Ticking Time Bomb] and the roughness of the uppercase didn't help matters as the machining was not that good. So you need to upgrade the cable and apply a single strip of electricians tape as described to help protect the cable from chaffing on the aluminum. Here's the needed cable [product|IF161-086] grab a new one before its too late as once they are gone thats it! And here's the guide [guide|5894]
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To add more to this Apple has some problems with the cables! [link|https://beetstech.com/blog/prevent-a1278-mid-2012-hard-drive-cable-failure|Your Hard Drive Cable Is A Ticking Time Bomb] and the roughness of the uppercase didn't help matters as the machining was not that good. So you need to upgrade the cable and apply a single strip of electricians tape as described to help protect the cable from chaffing on the aluminum. Here's the needed cable [product|IF161-086] grab a new one before its too late as once they are gone thats it! And here's the guide [guide|5894]
But before you put it in... we have one more issue! Many people kill the new cable in putting it in! There are fine foil wires within the cable and creasing the cable damages them! we want a smooth radius bend where the cable needs to bend around a corner. I use an old BIC pen ink straw as my forming break (no ink inside) as the diameter of the straw is the limit of the curve we want, nothing tighter!
OK back to the OS once you've replaced the cable!
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Here we need to make a bootable OS installer thumb drive, find a 32GB drive which you can use (make sure nothing is on it) Using Disk Utility we want to format it for GUID and a Journaled File System (now called Mac OS Extended). Then we want to download from here [https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683|How to get old versions of macOS] the macOS you want to use (and is supported on your system. Technically macOS Mojave 10.14.x) Then following this guide [https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372|How to create a bootable installer for macOS]
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Here we need to make a bootable OS installer thumb drive, find a 32GB drive which you can use (make sure nothing is on it) Using Disk Utility we want to format it for GUID and a Journaled File System (now called Mac OS Extended). Then we want to download from here [link|https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683|How to get old versions of macOS] the macOS you want to use (and is supported on your system. Technically macOS Mojave 10.14.x) Then following this guide [link|https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372|How to create a bootable installer for macOS]
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Now with your bootable OS installer you should be able to book up and using the Disk Utility within it format your internally mounted SSD and install the OS. Once it is setup you can then migrate your old HDD's stuff over to your new drive using a SATA to USB adapter or HD case to hold your drive (USB, FireWire or Thunderbolt). This is what I use [https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb|USB 3.0 (5Gbps) Adapter Cable for 2.5" SATA Drives to USB-A]
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Now with your bootable OS installer you should be able to book up and using the Disk Utility within it format your internally mounted SSD and install the OS. Once it is setup you can then migrate your old HDD's stuff over to your new drive using a SATA to USB adapter or HD case to hold your drive (USB, FireWire or Thunderbolt). This is what I use [link|https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb|USB 3.0 (5Gbps) Adapter Cable for 2.5" SATA Drives to USB-A]
Internet recovery is offering you the older macOS release which has issues with the newer macOS's This gets into the the file system structure from the older HFS+ vs APFS. 10.13 is the edge case! when the file system flipped between the two. A HDD which was upgraded year to year would still be HFS+ unless you altered the file system for within Disk Utility. A SSD drive would be magically upgraded to APFS.
Now you need to work around what Internet recovery does as its not going to properly prep the drive (as you encountered)
But! Before we get into the OS aspects we need to deal with one more hardware fix! This series (all 2011 13/15" systems) where sold with SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) HDD's and the HD SATA cable was only qualified for SATA II throughput. Later systems got a SATA III (6.0 gb/s) HDD but it still wasn't pushing the throughput of the HD cable that hard. Todays SSD's on the other hand are like a firehose! and the older cables just can't support the throughput causing serious errors which causes the system to chew on its self overheating in the process!
To add more to this Apple has some problems with the cables! [https://beetstech.com/blog/prevent-a1278-mid-2012-hard-drive-cable-failure|Your Hard Drive Cable Is A Ticking Time Bomb] and the roughness of the uppercase didn't help matters as the machining was not that good. So you need to upgrade the cable and apply a single strip of electricians tape as described to help protect the cable from chaffing on the aluminum. Here's the needed cable [product|IF161-086] grab a new one before its too late as once they are gone thats it! And here's the guide [guide|5894]
But before you put it in... we have one more issue! Many people kill the new cable in putting it in! There are fine foil wires within the cable and creasing the cable damages them! we want a smooth radius bend where the cable needs to bend around a corner. I use an old BIC pen ink straw as my forming break (no ink inside) as the diameter of the straw is the limit of the curve we want, nothing tighter!
OK back to the OS once you've replaced the cable!
Here we need to make a bootable OS installer thumb drive, find a 32GB drive which you can use (make sure nothing is on it) Using Disk Utility we want to format it for GUID and a Journaled File System (now called Mac OS Extended). Then we want to download from here [https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683|How to get old versions of macOS] the macOS you want to use (and is supported on your system. Technically macOS Mojave 10.14.x) Then following this guide [https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372|How to create a bootable installer for macOS]
Now with your bootable OS installer you should be able to book up and using the Disk Utility within it format your internally mounted SSD and install the OS. Once it is setup you can then migrate your old HDD's stuff over to your new drive using a SATA to USB adapter or HD case to hold your drive (USB, FireWire or Thunderbolt). This is what I use [https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb|USB 3.0 (5Gbps) Adapter Cable for 2.5" SATA Drives to USB-A]