02-25-2024, 04:45 PM
pdq wrote:
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?
My backup is a Time Machine backup. SO, if I am understanding you correctly I can keep the 1TB spinner in and connected, connect the 980GB SSD where the 128GB SSD was, put it all back together and see if the 1TB Spinner is dead or alive. If dead I can just leave it in and use the 980GB SSD has the main drive? OR if the 1TB spinner drive IS dead, do I need to open it back up and disconnect it and leave it in? Here's a picture of what I believe are the connectors for each drive - so if the 1TB Spinner is truly dead, I would unplug it (the part I am holding in the picture) and just leave it in?
