Q: Concerning using two drives in a MacBook Pro
I have installed a new SSD and placed the old Hard Drive in the Optical Bay. Prior to that, I had cloned the disk to the SSD. Now and after installation, the only thing is that when I boot from the SSD, the computer still shows the SSD start up disk as device in the side bar while the old hard drive is shown in the sidebar as the main Hard drive. It is obvious that the active disk, system are used from the SSD though. The Terminal starts from the name of the old disk even though it lists the contents of the Applications on the SSD when I ls.
Now, I wanted to erase the old HDD while booted in SSD. Disk Utility cannot unmount the disk, it says and quit the reformatting task. I tried the Recovery Hd too, the same result.
Now my questions are :
1. Do we have a conflict at the level of structure somewhere? A permanent link or what si it I am missing?
2. Can I safely erase, reformat the old hard drive and will the finder finds its path to the structure on the SSD?
Or what is I have missed?
I am on Lion (10.7.5).
MacBookPro 15-inch, early 2011
Grateful for your feedback or any suggestion.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Posted on Nov 21, 2015 8:56 PM
Dear Duane, thank you. I know. Actually I wrote my reply too fast but couldn't edit or delete it for some reason, that is why I sent another reply asking to ignore that point.
In fact, everything works really fine. I have new questions about other things, for instance, if I can place the ~/Library on the second disk with a symbolic link on the start up disk, but it is perhaps more appropriate to ask this question in a separate post.
So far at the beginning, it is fast and my MBP has got a new life. The stability of SSD, compared to HD,remains to be examined…
Posted on Nov 22, 2015 7:03 AM

