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Booting on my girlfriend's old hard drive

I have a mid-2009 13" MacBook Pro that I had removed the hard drive from. I had an old hard drive from my girlfriends older (2008) MacBook Pro that had Leopard installed. When I put it in the 2009 and booted while holding "option", the drive was recognized but after clicking on it the computer froze and will not do anything.

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Whats your plan here? Are you planning on using this drive moving forward.

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It sounds like you need to reformat & install a fresh copy of OS onto it. Depending on how the OS was installed originally and updated you could be missing a few drivers this system needs for this system.

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