02-25-2024, 04:04 PM
Dunno. Seriously, look at the ifixit page. They’re generally excellent.
Edit: or…
just put your “new” 960GB SSD drive in the bay you now have access to. Reassemble. Reboot from an external drive, or a USB installer, or one of the Mac recovery options. Then you’ll have access to Disk Utility, and you may be able to see the original drive you left in. (If it’s dead, it probably won’t appear in Disk Utility, but I think you should be able to leave the dead drive in place.) If it’s alive, and was configured as a Fusion Drive, you’ll probably have to erase it.
I presume you will want to install a fresh copy of the MacOSX on the new 960GB drive. Then you’ll have two separate drives, with a larger amount of total space (either 960+1000GB, or 960+128GB).
Alternately, you might be able to do a Fusion Drive again (a single logical volume) that appears like one, larger drive to the system and on your desktop. If so, do that before you fresh install MacOSX.
Do you have a separate backup of your original drive contents before the old setup died?
Edit: or…
just put your “new” 960GB SSD drive in the bay you now have access to. Reassemble. Reboot from an external drive, or a USB installer, or one of the Mac recovery options. Then you’ll have access to Disk Utility, and you may be able to see the original drive you left in. (If it’s dead, it probably won’t appear in Disk Utility, but I think you should be able to leave the dead drive in place.) If it’s alive, and was configured as a Fusion Drive, you’ll probably have to erase it.
I presume you will want to install a fresh copy of the MacOSX on the new 960GB drive. Then you’ll have two separate drives, with a larger amount of total space (either 960+1000GB, or 960+128GB).
Alternately, you might be able to do a Fusion Drive again (a single logical volume) that appears like one, larger drive to the system and on your desktop. If so, do that before you fresh install MacOSX.
Do you have a separate backup of your original drive contents before the old setup died?