Mid 2007 iMac Max Ram?

[MobiusStrip]

Sure did. In true Apple fashion, it doesn't way WHY it can't use the SSD to start up the computer.

I'd like to think they learned something about keeping customers informed from the recent phone-throttling debacle, but they don't have the best track record.

The patched High Sierra installer is next. After that I suppose I could try putting the conventional hard drive back in.

 

[MobiusStrip]

UPDATE: The Partition button was disabled for the SSD in Disk Utility, and it showed no partitions on the disk (although it showed the capacity, that it was HFS+, GUID partition table, blah blah blah).

Launching Terminal from Services after booting from the El Capitan installer on a thumbdrive, I was able to call Disk Utility from the command line and force it to create a partition on the SSD. Again I tried to install the OS, and it complained that destination volume wasn't formatted with HFS+ journaled (even though Disk Utility said it was). So I used Disk Utility to "erase" the partition yet again (since it was now visible under the SSD in DU's sidebar)... and finally I could install El Capitan. It stalled at "less than a second" to go for quite a long time, but showing the log (Command-L) revealed some activity.

And... everything works! The new Wi-Fi card and Bluetooth work fine, and the performance is snappy thus far. So I might try the patched High Sierra.

 

[MultiFinder17]

And... everything works! The new Wi-Fi card and Bluetooth work fine, and the performance is snappy thus far. So I might try the patched High Sierra.

Glad you got it up and running! High Sierra will run nicely on that machine; I have it running on my 2.4GHz/6GB/128GB 2008 20”, and it runs snappily.

 

[MobiusStrip]

Yep, installed High Sierra now and so far it’s working great.

 

[DCJ001]

I am writing this from my mid 2007 24" iMac with 6GB of RAM, need any more information?

Yeah.

Which keyboard and mouse are you using?

 

[DeltaMac]

Yeah.

Which keyboard and mouse are you using?

Notice that post is from 2011, nearly 7 years ago. Poster may have gone through multiple sets of keyboards, etc, during that time, and now shows a 27-inch iMac in his information area. Life moves ahead pretty quickly sometimes

 

[MobiusStrip]

Ha, yep. I'm using an Apple Bluetooth keyboard and generic wireless mouse. I detest the lack of a real Delete key on Apple keyboards, though. I use Karabiner to remap F12 to be Delete.

I don't understand Apple's petty refusal to provide a Delete key like everybody else; instead they give us only a Backspace key that's mislabeled "delete." WTF. Even after the Eject key became obsolete and could easily have been made Delete.

I also have a 27" Retina iMac as my main machine (with full-sized Apple wired keyboard). My beloved 2011 MacBook Pro with a matte screen just died (second bad GPU, like all the 2011s), so I have no idea what to do about a laptop. I will not buy the asinine "touch bar" and POS keyboard on the new ones... and, to my original rant, now you don't even have an F12 key to remap for Delete. AND you can't add Delete to the touchbar, another WTF.

Oh, and I just gutted a 27" 2011 iMac with yes, a dead GPU... to turn into a really good monitor using an $80 LVDS driver board off eBay. Woot! Maybe I can get a driver for the matte panel from my MBP at least, and make a monitor for the 2006 Mini that I upgraded to Core 2 Duo years ago...

 

[Havohej]

It is too late for you now, but in case anyone else's read this thread. When I upgraded to SSD I didn't reinstall MacOS, I dumped the HDD to the SSD with SuperDuper! and then I installed the SSD in. SuperDuper! can copy the whole thing even if the sizes are not the same and the new disk will be bootable.

Maybe this won't work in your case because your original HDD was failing though.

 

[klagoosh]

I recently bought a 20" 2007 iMac. It needed a lot of upgrades that either are no longer available for this year or a pain to find that work. I just created a bootable Ubuntu memory stick on another machine, booted it with the stick, and installed Ubuntu. It is awesome! I also installed WINE, which lets you use virtually any Windows program, as well. It's an easy learn for a Mac user, and very versatile. Gone are the days when you almost need to be a programmer to use Ubuntu.