Hello
I have a mid 2010 MBP. 15" i7 dual core with 8gb of RAM running Maverick.
I have a brand new Samsung Evo 840 SSD I want to put in.
When I put the SSD and my Snow Leopard install cd-rom, it stays stuck at the grey screen with apple logo. No beach ball. No mouse pointer. CD rom spins fast ten slows down, then stops in about a minute.
If I do command-R it uses Wifi and I can get in DU. In DU it recognizes the drive fine.
I erased the drive, creating a Macintosh HD partition. I did this again making sure it was set to GUID, extended journaled etc.
So it sees the SSD. It wants met to install Yosemite if I do the wifi reinstall. I don't want Yosemite I want ML. So I figured I'd install SL, the upgrade to ML with a DMG I have.
If I reboot having selected the CD Rom installer fan recorvery mode it also does the same. Stuck at grey screen with apple logo and nothing else.
What is going on? What am I missing?
The CDrom is fine, the drive works and see's the disc. DU see's and formats the SSD. Disk repair and verify all show no problems.
I took out the ssd, replaced my old Hdd and it fires right up. I want a clean install on my SSD.
Very frustrated please help!
Thank you
I have a mid 2010 MBP. 15" i7 dual core with 8gb of RAM running Maverick.
I have a brand new Samsung Evo 840 SSD I want to put in.
When I put the SSD and my Snow Leopard install cd-rom, it stays stuck at the grey screen with apple logo. No beach ball. No mouse pointer. CD rom spins fast ten slows down, then stops in about a minute.
If I do command-R it uses Wifi and I can get in DU. In DU it recognizes the drive fine.
I erased the drive, creating a Macintosh HD partition. I did this again making sure it was set to GUID, extended journaled etc.
So it sees the SSD. It wants met to install Yosemite if I do the wifi reinstall. I don't want Yosemite I want ML. So I figured I'd install SL, the upgrade to ML with a DMG I have.
If I reboot having selected the CD Rom installer fan recorvery mode it also does the same. Stuck at grey screen with apple logo and nothing else.
What is going on? What am I missing?
The CDrom is fine, the drive works and see's the disc. DU see's and formats the SSD. Disk repair and verify all show no problems.
I took out the ssd, replaced my old Hdd and it fires right up. I want a clean install on my SSD.
Very frustrated please help!
Thank you