{"id":876,"date":"2018-03-07T11:55:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T11:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bristol-computer-support.co.uk\/bristolcomputersupportblog\/?p=876"},"modified":"2018-03-07T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T12:10:45","slug":"macbook-pro-2012-hard-drive-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bristol-computer-support.co.uk\/bristolcomputersupportblog\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Pro 2012 Hard Drive Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MacBook Pro Repairs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve just completed a nice repair to a student&#8217;s MacBook Pro.\u00a0 It was a 2012 version, and it had a 500Gb Hard Drive failure.\u00a0 It would not boot up at all.\u00a0 So we supplied a low cost Solid State Drive (120Gb). You could call it a &#8220;forced to upgrade&#8221; option!<\/p>\n<p>Having fitted this new drive, we reinstalled the Operating System &#8220;Lion&#8221;and then accessed the old hard drive.\u00a0 Most of the student&#8217;s data was intact &#8211; so we copied it all back.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of hours labour and a drive, and it was a quicker MacBook Pro 2012!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images10.newegg.com\/ProductImage\/34-100-228-05.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for macbook pro 2012\" width=\"353\" height=\"265\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"tweetthis\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><p> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=MacBook+Pro+2012+Hard+Drive+Failure+http%3A%2F%2Fbristol-computer-support.co.uk%2Fbristolcomputersupportblog%2F%3Fp%3D876\" title=\"Post to Twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bristol-computer-support.co.uk\/bristolcomputersupportblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=MacBook+Pro+2012+Hard+Drive+Failure+http%3A%2F%2Fbristol-computer-support.co.uk%2Fbristolcomputersupportblog%2F%3Fp%3D876\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacBook Pro Repairs&#8230; We&#8217;ve just completed a nice repair to a student&#8217;s MacBook Pro.\u00a0 It was a 2012 version, and it had a 500Gb Hard Drive failure.\u00a0 It would not boot up at all.\u00a0 So we supplied a low cost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristol-computer-support.co.uk\/bristolcomputersupportblog\/?p=876\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-mac-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bristol-computer-support.co.uk\/bristolcomputersupportblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bristol-computer-support.co.uk\/bristolcomputersupportblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bristol-computer-support.co.uk\/bristolcomputersupportblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bristol-computer-support.co.uk\/bristolcomputersupportblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bristol-computer-support.co.uk\/bristolcomputersupportblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bristol-computer-support.co.uk\/bristolcomputersupportblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/www.bristol-computer-support.co.uk\/bristolcomputersupportblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bristol-computer-support.co.uk\/bristolcomputersupportblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bristol-computer-support.co.uk\/bristolcomputersupportblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bristol-computer-support.co.uk\/bristolcomputersupportblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}