
Connect the Thunderbolt cable to your Mac and a second Mac. Press the power button again and immediately press the “T” key and hold it until you see the thunderbolt symbol on the screen.Hold the power button for at least five seconds until your Mas is off.If your Mac has more than one user account, you need to back up the data from every user account.įollow these steps to retrieve files from your failed MacBook Pro: The photo below shows a typical Mac folder structure. For example, a Mac running on El Capitan will not recognise a hard drive with Caterina. A Mac running on an older macOS may not recognise the file system of a newer macOS. If you still can’t see the target hard drive on the desktop, you may need to upgrade the macOS of your working Mac.If you can’t see the hard drive, check the system preference to ensure the external drive option is enabled.


For more info, see How reserved storage works in Windows. Windows follows three different feature update paths, depending on the amount of disk space currently available.

Learn more about our efforts to reduce offline time during updates (English only at this time).įor PCs with limited free space but still enough to complete the update automatically Windows automatically tries to complete more of the update process in the background while you use your PC. This significantly reduces the time your PC will be offline (or unusable) during the update, although it might temporarily use more disk space to complete the update. Windows will automatically optimize for reducing the amount of free disk space required to install the update. This will result in a longer offline install time.įor PCs that don't have enough space to automatically install the update Windows will prompt you to free up disk space or use external storage to temporarily extend the storage on your PC.
