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isaaclimdc

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Jun 28, 2009
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Pittsburgh, PA
Hi everyone,

I just took my 128GB Kingston SSD out of my MBP and swapped it for a 500GB HD (serious capacity problems). The 500GB HD was from a WD MyPassport, and so I put the SSD into the MyPassport casing and connected to my Mac. It does not recognize the drive, and when I try to format it in Disk Utility it says "POSIX reports: The operation couldn't be completed. Input/output error."

If I connect the SSD with this generic USB to SATA cable connector that I have, the external drive shows up just fine. So, I'm thinking it's a problem between the way the SSD interacts with the WD SATA board?

Any help appreciated.
 
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