Hello,
I have a mid 2009 MBP (5,5) and a shiny new OWC 480GB SSD drive. In a nutshell, I can not get this to work at all. I am trying to install a fresh copy of Lion onto it, but it keeps failing, and I'm running out of ideas.
The facts:
- MBP 5,5 13" mid 2009
- SMC version 1.47f2 (1.5 update won't install as incompatible)
- EFI firmware v1.7 - MBP55.00AC.B03 - this is the latest listed on Apple support website for my machine
- SSD = OWC Mercury extreme pro 3G
- SSD firmware 361A13F0
- SSD drive has a single GUID partition - formatted ok
- Disk utility verify shows no problems
- I have had the SSD drive replaced - first one had exactly the same problems
- I am installing from a USB key that has been tested OK elsewhere
- I tried a second USB key created by a different person
- Install starts ok, copies all the files ok, but during actual install bombs out halfway through. I get a screen saying there has been a failure - no other info.
- With first SSD I booted from original HDD (in a USB caddy) and tried to restore existing Lion install using disk utility - failed after an hour or so due to "input/output errors"
- I've cleared PVRAM and tried again
- I've reformatted and tried again
- Somebody else has tried (in case it was me!)
I'm struggling to think of what else to try. Anybody had similar issues, or got any helpful suggestions.
Many thanks
Craig
I have a mid 2009 MBP (5,5) and a shiny new OWC 480GB SSD drive. In a nutshell, I can not get this to work at all. I am trying to install a fresh copy of Lion onto it, but it keeps failing, and I'm running out of ideas.
The facts:
- MBP 5,5 13" mid 2009
- SMC version 1.47f2 (1.5 update won't install as incompatible)
- EFI firmware v1.7 - MBP55.00AC.B03 - this is the latest listed on Apple support website for my machine
- SSD = OWC Mercury extreme pro 3G
- SSD firmware 361A13F0
- SSD drive has a single GUID partition - formatted ok
- Disk utility verify shows no problems
- I have had the SSD drive replaced - first one had exactly the same problems
- I am installing from a USB key that has been tested OK elsewhere
- I tried a second USB key created by a different person
- Install starts ok, copies all the files ok, but during actual install bombs out halfway through. I get a screen saying there has been a failure - no other info.
- With first SSD I booted from original HDD (in a USB caddy) and tried to restore existing Lion install using disk utility - failed after an hour or so due to "input/output errors"
- I've cleared PVRAM and tried again
- I've reformatted and tried again
- Somebody else has tried (in case it was me!)
I'm struggling to think of what else to try. Anybody had similar issues, or got any helpful suggestions.
Many thanks
Craig