So I upgraded my macbook pro late 2008 with a new battery, 8gb ram and an SSD drive.
After the ram upgrade I noticed a slowdown in performance which I posted a thread about on here a few weeks ago. I figured that the slowdown was due to the hdd failing and not the ram upgrade.
After that the correct caddy arrived for me to add the SSD drive, which I did. In recovery mode I used disk utility to format the SSD, then to copy the contents of the HDD onto the SSD.
After doing this the HDD and SSD shared the same name (macintosh HDD) and only one disk was avaliable to select as the startup disk, but because they both shared the same name it was impossible to tell which one it was.
Now the machine was running even slower than before I added the SSD. I formatted the HDD but I could still not work out which disk was being used as the startup disk.
But it gets worse. The computer turns itself off with an error message 'your computer has encountered a problem and needs to shut down'. Sometimes it puts itself to sleep and makes a series of loud beeping noises when you try to power it back up. Sometimes it makes these beeps when you try to turn the computer on (which I have never heard before now).
I have tried to do a tiem machine backup, and there is only 26GB of the backup left to go, but it cannot get as far as preparing the backup before it crashes.
So today I tried removing the HDD and powering up with only the SSD. Upon powering on there is a flashing folder with a '?' in it, and recovery mode cannot be accesses.
I tried powering up with only thr HDD inside and there is only a blank screen, and I heard the hdd making a loud spinning noise.
I'm not sure what my next step should be. I want to finish the time machine backup. I'm sure the HDD is almost dead, but I'm not sure what is causing these errors and crashes and beeping. Perhaps the startup disk is on the HDD, but if so, how am I able to startup off the SSD if there is only one disk that I can select?
Any advice appreciated. Thankyou
After the ram upgrade I noticed a slowdown in performance which I posted a thread about on here a few weeks ago. I figured that the slowdown was due to the hdd failing and not the ram upgrade.
After that the correct caddy arrived for me to add the SSD drive, which I did. In recovery mode I used disk utility to format the SSD, then to copy the contents of the HDD onto the SSD.
After doing this the HDD and SSD shared the same name (macintosh HDD) and only one disk was avaliable to select as the startup disk, but because they both shared the same name it was impossible to tell which one it was.
Now the machine was running even slower than before I added the SSD. I formatted the HDD but I could still not work out which disk was being used as the startup disk.
But it gets worse. The computer turns itself off with an error message 'your computer has encountered a problem and needs to shut down'. Sometimes it puts itself to sleep and makes a series of loud beeping noises when you try to power it back up. Sometimes it makes these beeps when you try to turn the computer on (which I have never heard before now).
I have tried to do a tiem machine backup, and there is only 26GB of the backup left to go, but it cannot get as far as preparing the backup before it crashes.
So today I tried removing the HDD and powering up with only the SSD. Upon powering on there is a flashing folder with a '?' in it, and recovery mode cannot be accesses.
I tried powering up with only thr HDD inside and there is only a blank screen, and I heard the hdd making a loud spinning noise.
I'm not sure what my next step should be. I want to finish the time machine backup. I'm sure the HDD is almost dead, but I'm not sure what is causing these errors and crashes and beeping. Perhaps the startup disk is on the HDD, but if so, how am I able to startup off the SSD if there is only one disk that I can select?
Any advice appreciated. Thankyou