Hi guys, here's a short summary of what is going:
I bought a Samsung 840 SATA III 120 GB for my MacBook Pro 13" Mid 2012 and installed it in the optical bay. I have to tell that I bought an adapter for a SATA II SSD but people told me this would not affect the functionality of the disk.
My MacBook is already running on OS X Mavericks, this might have caused some trouble but I'll explain that later.
After erasing the SSD in Disk Utility it showed up as it should in the sidebar in the Finder app.
So up next: cloning all files from the original Macintosh HDD to the SSD, which should be no problem because it contains like 70GB of files.
So I downloaded the paid version of Superduper! After a few gigabytes being copied it shows me an error that some files can't be copied so I cannot proceed.
Perhaps it's just the app? So let's try another one: Carbon Copy Cloner.
After trying to open the lastest version (so Mountain Lion supported) a pop-up shows up that the OS X version is yet not supported. So I continue my search
Enough of the third party apps, I concluded this job could only be done with the Startup Manager. I restart my computer and holt the option key ofcourse and run disk utility.
Restoring the Macintosh HD onto the Samsung SSD seems impossible, not enough disk space on dev/disc02 (not really the name but I can't recall), error 254 and could not validate - input/output error.
Okay, Disk Utility seems to be out of the question... So now let's try to restore a backup from my Time Capsule on the SSD! Again an error, restart your computer and try again.
Last option! (that I know of ofcourse): Reinstall OS X, I sign in with my Apple ID and nothing happens. It says OS X will be installed on the disk, and that's it. When repressing (if that even is a word?) 'install' it just asks me to log in again...
Your help would be very appreciated, I tried to speed my MacBook up with the little budget that I have + I voided my warranty by putting the SSD in
I have very little time actually to figure all the options out how to solve this, I have retests in a week and a half (psychology student) and should be studying... Instead I'm here trying to figure put what's wrong because of a lack of discipline
Thank you for your time and help you guys!
God bless
I bought a Samsung 840 SATA III 120 GB for my MacBook Pro 13" Mid 2012 and installed it in the optical bay. I have to tell that I bought an adapter for a SATA II SSD but people told me this would not affect the functionality of the disk.
My MacBook is already running on OS X Mavericks, this might have caused some trouble but I'll explain that later.
After erasing the SSD in Disk Utility it showed up as it should in the sidebar in the Finder app.
So up next: cloning all files from the original Macintosh HDD to the SSD, which should be no problem because it contains like 70GB of files.
So I downloaded the paid version of Superduper! After a few gigabytes being copied it shows me an error that some files can't be copied so I cannot proceed.
Perhaps it's just the app? So let's try another one: Carbon Copy Cloner.
After trying to open the lastest version (so Mountain Lion supported) a pop-up shows up that the OS X version is yet not supported. So I continue my search
Enough of the third party apps, I concluded this job could only be done with the Startup Manager. I restart my computer and holt the option key ofcourse and run disk utility.
Restoring the Macintosh HD onto the Samsung SSD seems impossible, not enough disk space on dev/disc02 (not really the name but I can't recall), error 254 and could not validate - input/output error.
Okay, Disk Utility seems to be out of the question... So now let's try to restore a backup from my Time Capsule on the SSD! Again an error, restart your computer and try again.
Last option! (that I know of ofcourse): Reinstall OS X, I sign in with my Apple ID and nothing happens. It says OS X will be installed on the disk, and that's it. When repressing (if that even is a word?) 'install' it just asks me to log in again...
Your help would be very appreciated, I tried to speed my MacBook up with the little budget that I have + I voided my warranty by putting the SSD in
I have very little time actually to figure all the options out how to solve this, I have retests in a week and a half (psychology student) and should be studying... Instead I'm here trying to figure put what's wrong because of a lack of discipline
Thank you for your time and help you guys!
God bless
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