I have an Early 2011 17" MBP
I have swapped out the DVD drive for an HDD bay.
When I first did this I moved the HDD to the bay and installed the SSD drive.
I got a larger HDD and since installing it I get a grey screen with my mouse on boot. And Drive utility doesnt seem to want to detect the new drive, but any time I usb the drive or put it in another computer it is fine so I dont believe the drive is defective. But if I remove it and use just the ssd I am ok and if I replace the old 500gb hdd it is ok so something weird is going on.
I have tried safe boot with the same results, I have reset the pram and I have run a repair installation of osx 10.8
I have also verified permissions and run a repair.
any help is appreciated
I have swapped out the DVD drive for an HDD bay.
When I first did this I moved the HDD to the bay and installed the SSD drive.
I got a larger HDD and since installing it I get a grey screen with my mouse on boot. And Drive utility doesnt seem to want to detect the new drive, but any time I usb the drive or put it in another computer it is fine so I dont believe the drive is defective. But if I remove it and use just the ssd I am ok and if I replace the old 500gb hdd it is ok so something weird is going on.
I have tried safe boot with the same results, I have reset the pram and I have run a repair installation of osx 10.8
I have also verified permissions and run a repair.
any help is appreciated