This seems as though this is the start-up partition, correct? All of the options to partition and erase the drive are grey and dimmed out. It only has "Disc0" with "Mac OS Base System" right underneath it. I tried using disk utilities from the Internet Recovery option, but the computer won't recognize the new SSD. I then booted again but this time holding down the Option key. I then took out the hard drive and bought a new internal SSD (Crucial M500 2.5'' SSD with 240GB of storage) and replaced the initial HDD with the SSD, but the folder with the question mark popped up again.
After searching through the forums here and elsewhere, it is apparently a faulty/corrupted HDD. After the initial startup sound, a grey folder with a flashing question mark shows up. It froze, so I decided to reboot the machine. So this morning, I plugged in my USB mouse and all of a sudden a grey loading circle came about. Thought that i rather upgrade my PC, than my mac!Īlso, have a friend who has the same mac as us too - he runs a SSD at 6GB/s.4GB of RAM (never changed it from when I bought it)
I installed Yosemite yesterday, and absolutely loved it! (uses way less battery) - but i decided to ditch the upgrade to another time! How do you know the data II 6gb/s will work for us? Did it work for you? I have the same computer as you except with Yosemite 10.10. Intel i5 2.5Ghz | Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024MB | 2x4GB DDR3 1600Mhz | (I am going to switch out the optical bay with the SSD by the way - and i know that the optical bay supports data III 6gb/s - so that is good!)Īnd of course the SSD is going to be the main startup drive.Ĭurrent HDD 500GB 5400RPM I want to have the OS (and some other programs) on the SSD, while the rest on the HDD Right now the OS and all my stuff are on the HDD. I am about to upgrade my macbook pro with an SSD, for increased speed, and startup times - and was wondering how i could move my OS to the SDD as i want to keep the HDD for storage.
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