mountain lion and aftermarket SSD

I installed an Samsung 830 in my 2008 iMac and no problems. You'll be fine.

I installed one in my mid-2010 MBP a month ago running lion. no problems at all.

Upgraded to Mountain Lion today, It was an epic failure.
Had to reinstall mountain lion to my hard disc that's still in the mbp.
don't know what to do to get to all my files on my ssd and get it to work.

Have it installed on
an Intel 80GB SSD in my wife's '09 iMac
a ForceGT in my '11 iMac
and a ForceGT in my wife's '09 MBP

all of the above are working just fine.
Clean installs all around.

I have a 60GB OWC SSD and the install went fine. Rather speedy too. ML is actually 8-10% faster on my mini according to the benchmarks I ran after the installation completed.

2011 mbp

So for my 2011 MBP I'm planning on buying this SSD:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004W2JL3Y

What is the easiest way to do a clean install of Mountain Lion to the new SSD when I put it in? Can I download ML to a jump drive?

JPCovington said:

So for my 2011 MBP I'm planning on buying this SSD:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004W2JL3Y

What is the easiest way to do a clean install of Mountain Lion to the new SSD when I put it in? Can I download ML to a jump drive?

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http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/11/build-your-own-lion-install-usb-thumb-drive-for-cheap/

Follow these instructions for making a Lion Thumb Drive.

I've installed ML on my mid 2010 mpb with a 128 gb Samsung 830 ssd. Everything runs fine, no hiccups boot time is 17 secs for me..

toastie said:

Did you do a fresh install or was it already installed and running lion and you just did an upgrade? Have you used a third party trim enabler?

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I did a fresh install of Lion when I originally installed the ssd drive..that was about 1 1/2 months ago...ive installed mountain lion this morning, didnt do a fresh install since i already did with Lion and I also keep my working files/documents/photos/music on a separate hard drive via western digital my passport..I only have emails and programs on my mpb only, I completely work off of my portable hd...and I also do not have trim enabled..

I had a problem

ML installer aborted when I tried to install on a Crucial 250 GB drive on a spring 2011 i7 MBPro. Error: Could not create recovery system.

I have it installed on a Crucial m4. I upgraded from Lion with no issues during the download or installation process. However, it did turn off the TRIM support that I had placed, but I was glad that the same process works on ML as well.

And according to System Info, my recovery drive is 650MB. I booted into that after I installed to do a random repair/verify of my disks.

toastie said:

What make of drive did you install?

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not positive what you're asking..
I installed onto my samsung 830 ssd first, didn't work. that will only boot in recovery mode.

when i enter recovery mode it gives me the option to reinstall ML, so i chose this option and installed ML onto the MBP's original hard disc, which i was using to store files and stuff i don't always need.

kind of stuck here. need to find a way to get my ssd working again.

Install with a Crucial M4 and no issues. Did an upgrade install over Lion.

I just made a fresh install of Mountain Lion on my 2010 MBP with Intel x-25 160gb SSD. No issues at all.

is there a way to figure out what i did wrong and fix it?

What i'm doing now to fix this is going to take forever.

moving all my files on my hard disc to an external, copying over all my system settings and apps from my ssd which is in recovery mode to my HD which is working, then using CCC to copy over from the HD to the SSD.

This is literally going to take me days.

Using OCZ agility3 as boot/apps/OS drive and no problems here. I think the controller is a sand force.

my unibody MBP has an OWC SSD in it and had no problems installing ML last night. Went to install on my mini with a samsung 830 SSD and ran into the "could not create recovery partition" error

CRIIM44 said:

my unibody MBP has an OWC SSD in it and had no problems installing ML last night. Went to install on my mini with a samsung 830 SSD and ran into the "could not create recovery partition" error

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let me know what you do to fix it. Mine has been having massive issues, had to install it on my old HD to get it working. all my files still sitting on my SSD though.

Failed install on Crucial M4

I tried to do un upgrade on my Crucial M4 256 - install failed and trashed the system on the drive so that it would not boot. Installed ML on another drive in my Mac Pro, wiped my ssd, still would not install. In desperation I kept running Disk Repair and after two Disk Repairs the install finally took.

I had a Time Machine backup, but it would not restore - I didn't know there was a problem using one TM disk for multiple source volumes. TM kept trying to Restore 3 hard drives onto the ssd. Had to manually copy files across, including prefs, etc. to get things back working. Took hours. Worst problem I've ever had with an OS update (user since System 6 in 1990).

Oh, yeah, the sad is three weeks old. Now that I have it working, the Mac does seem a little faster than in Snow Leopard. And I dislike that you cannot set a default font in Safari without making a .css file, and I also need to figure out how to turn off Screen Saver requiring a password.

ToastMonster said:

let me know what you do to fix it. Mine has been having massive issues, had to install it on my old HD to get it working. all my files still sitting on my SSD though.

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one of the fix's that i saw worked for at least a few people was go into disk utility and resize the partition for the OS down by 1gb giving the install space to put a recovery partition on. Didnt work for me though but only takes a few minutes to do and is worth trying.

One of the other solutions is to wipe the drive clean and do a fresh install, I may end up doing this but i'm going to try a few other things first

CRIIM44 said:

one of the fix's that i saw worked for at least a few people was go into disk utility and resize the partition for the OS down by 1gb giving the install space to put a recovery partition on. Didnt work for me though but only takes a few minutes to do and is worth trying.

One of the other solutions is to wipe the drive clean and do a fresh install, I may end up doing this but i'm going to try a few other things first

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I tried reseting my PRAM as i saw some people do that but it didn't work. I'm in SAFE MODE now trying to get some files off.

This is the report it sends to apple:

Interval Since Last Panic Report: 88 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: 5AF0DF3C-DF40-42A7-B82D-A0A271DEF078

Thu Jul 26 13:47:47 2012
panic(cpu 3 caller 0xffffff8004043d5e): "a freed zone element has been modified in zone: kalloc.128"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.7.9/osfmk/kern/zalloc.c:219
Backtrace (CPU 3), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80f4e83720 : 0xffffff800401d5f6
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0xffffff80f4e839d0 : 0xffffff7f861db514
0xffffff80f4e83a00 : 0xffffff8004126e02
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Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib(1.0d1)[5461F87D-B177-359F-BCBA-AAD93F1AA676]@0xffffff7f861d9000->0xffffff7f861dcfff

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: NotificationCent

Mac OS version:
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Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.0.0: Sun Jun 24 23:00:16 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.7.9~1/RELEASE_X86_64
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Kernel slide: 0x0000000003e00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8004000000
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fresh install mountain lion on new ssd

mmomega said:

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/11/build-your-own-lion-install-usb-thumb-drive-for-cheap/

Follow these instructions for making a Lion Thumb Drive.

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so would these instructions be applicable to doing a fresh install of mountain lion on a new ssd. I want a clean install, new drive, new os, like a new MacBook . thx

captndave said:

so would these instructions be applicable to doing a fresh install of mountain lion on a new ssd. I want a clean install, new drive, new os, like a new MacBook . thx

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If you make the ML USB installer you can do a clean install on your SSD. That's exactly how I did it on my new SSD.