Fri 16 Jun 2023

People say that I’m weird.

I bought a “new” laptop yesterday. And it has a bunch of issues.

First of all the battery is swollen. So that’s a good thing, right?

Then there’s an issue with the OS reinstall.

I’ve spent around 4 hours on it so far getting it to install the latest OS for that specific laptop (Apple) and yeah. Still not got it booted up.

While at work today I got an idea. I can put the harddrive that I got it with (750GB) back into it, since that seems to have an OS installed. Then I can make an install media with that, and then put the SSD I got back into it.

This I think would be the easier way to get it installed.

I’ve tried with my Windows computer to make a USB boot on it, and with the OS’ I’ve found and tried with only 1 of them actually booted up. But it then gave an error that the drive was corrupted.

So I’ll try to follow Apple’s guidelines next with a file from their site, and then install with the guide they have on their site.

So, so far it’s been a great journey to get this Apple Macbook Pro 15″ from 2011 working.

PS. I have a Macbook Air 14″ M2 2022 for work. But private projects shouldn’t go on that. And since it’s an M2 it can’t run the software to make the bootable USB drive.