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Episode: 4173
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Title: HPR4173: Getting my 2015 Macbook Pro back up and running
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4173/hpr4173.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 20:42:15
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4173 for Wednesday the 31st of July 2024.
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Today's show is entitled Getting My 2015 MacBook Pro Backup and Running.
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It is hosted by Swift 110 and is about 6 minutes long. It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, the storage drive of my 2015 MacBook Pro died on me and I was able to replace
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it.
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Hello, this is Swift 110 and very recently I came back to my hotel room. I had been out
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of town for a few days and my laptop had a screen on it that I had never seen before.
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It showed a folder on the inside of the question mark. My first instinct was to obviously
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turn the laptop off and turn it back on. But that got the same error message on the screen.
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I tried that a couple more times to know if it will avail and decided to actually look
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up the problem. The problem was with my 15 inch 2015 MacBook Pro. Apparently the SSD had
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gone belly up. I'm not going to say a few words or not going to give a moment of silence
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because none has needed. The thing went belly up. And so doing some research, clicking
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on the actual error message going into Apple, but not came to the conclusion that, okay,
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chances are my data is gone. I can do a couple things, try to restore the data back or
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it's gone. If indeed the data is gone, I'm going to just have to start over. Well, eventually
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after a lot of drama, they'll probably go into in a future recording. I ordered a brand
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new SSD. Now, the thing about MacBook Pro is that Apple likes to think different. And
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that means they don't just put any old SSD in their machines. See, it has to be a PCIe
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SSD. And so, it means I need a more specialized type of drive to even run a machine at
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all. A couple of case matters, right? Can't just go to Microsoft and pick up a drive, pop
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it in, drop it down. I'll be able to do that with Windows. I'll be able to do that with
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Linux, but not Apple. Because they think different. Okay. So I go to Amazon and I order
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a new PCIe SSD drive that I would need. Well, not a problem, not really after all. I would
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decide to replace the old drive, which was a 256 gigabyte drive, with a 512. The other
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storage is something new. Let's rebuild this machine. Much of my surprise in the light,
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I got my drive the following day. I had gone through a lot trying to create a boot USB
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drive that turned out to be an epic fail. It turned out to be unnecessary. Now, when I
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did get the drive, what actually ended up happening was that I didn't realize I need
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the format at first. Once I got all I'd done, I was able to go ahead and install Montaway
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onto it. And after quite some time, I was able to be booted up to a regular desktop. Again,
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Apple likes to think different. It complicates something that should not be complicated at all.
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Had I been using Linux at this particular time, I would have simply used one of my
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Ventory sticks, which is a need of using multiple ISO images onto a USB drive, which means
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multiple distros on one drive, pick one and install boom. 20, 30 minutes, I'm done. Start
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installing programs, start rebuilding, and I'm done. And I liked that with Apple. I was
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able to, thankfully, find the internet, yay, to install Montaway back to one here. And I'm
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grateful to have gotten my machine back up and running. Been about a week now that I've
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had it up and running. But it would have been a lot easier if Apple didn't decide to think
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different. And so I thought I'd go ahead and share that short summary of getting my machines
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back up and running. It's 2015 MacBook Pro. It's a nice machine. And I'll be talking more
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about it in the future. Again, this has been Swift410. And I want to encourage all of you wonderful
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people out there. If you've ever looked all the way to recording, perhaps you'll have a great
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deal to please do so. We would love to have your submissions, to help keep this amazing
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project. It's been going on for nearly 20 years. Let's keep this alive. All right, you guys have a
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fantastic evening. Bye for now. You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at Hacker Public
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Radio.org. Today's show was contributed by a HBR listener like yourself. If you ever thought
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of recording podcast, you click on our contribute link to find out how easy it really is.
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Hosting for HBR has been kindly provided by an honesthost.com, the internet archive,
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and our sims.net. On the satellite status, today's show is released under Creative Commons
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Attribution 4.0 International License.
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