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I purchased a brand new crucial SSD with 1 TB. I remove the 500 GB HDD, but after installation my computer shows one terabyte installed but free space 329 gigs of 499.98 GB. Why is it not showing 999.98 gigs?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
Unless you have a bad or counterfeit SSD, then you will need to erase the whole physical drive as GUID partition and APFS (top option). To be able to erase the physical drive you will need to click on "View" within Disk Utility and select "Show All Devices" before the physical drive will appear in the left pane of Disk Utility.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496
If you have any important data on the drive, then make sure to back it up first.
Unless you have a bad or counterfeit SSD, then you will need to erase the whole physical drive as GUID partition and APFS (top option). To be able to erase the physical drive you will need to click on "View" within Disk Utility and select "Show All Devices" before the physical drive will appear in the left pane of Disk Utility.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496
If you have any important data on the drive, then make sure to back it up first.
LenD2020 wrote:
Trying to download macOS on a SSD and it is stuck on the macOS recovery Examining Volumes
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/f8026fdf-ecd5-41a7-85e4-4440c1465157
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This usually means you have a bad drive or cable connection (any connected/installed drive could be the problem). The installer is trying to located any possible destinations for the install and the system is hanging because a drive is most likely not responding properly.
Could also be an installer issue as well (USB stick is bad or disconnected or you lost your Internet connection for a moment if booted into Recovery Mode).
Trying to download macOS on a SSD and it is stuck on the macOS recovery Examining Volumesre
Open the Terminal app and run the following commands and post the results here:
diskutil list internal
diskutil info disk0
Upgraded 500GB HDD TO 1TB SSD