MacBookPro5,4 - Issues with Seagate Momentus 750gb

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All I need to know, and nothing more, is the week and year of the machine from the computer's serial number. These are given in three characters.
The rest are a key to your warranty, which you wouldn't want to be public knowledge. Here's how to read it:

xxABCxxxxx where x is any letter or number, and so is ABC any letter or number.

xx939xxxxx is the 39th week of 2009.
xx012xxxxx is the 12th week of 2010.

So which week and year is the machine?

What disk are you using to install OSX? Is it a commercial version or a disk from another machine?

In other words, does your disc look like *, does it say Upgrade, Dropin, or OEM, or are you sure it is the installer disc that shipped with the computer, or what is the fine print 10.6 version on the label? This coupled with knowing the week and year of the machine will let us know if you are installing the right disc.

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Message was edited by: a brody

I have this drive, too. Also had some initial set up issues (different from yours), but it's working.

I'd try installing a system while the drive is in the enclosure, and then after you've put it into your MBP, reset the PRAM on boot. No promises, but I've seen this work with new hdds that aren't being recognized.

How you were able to make that disc work before is uncertain, as normally it should not work on the machine you have with your serial number. Normally only the full retail Snow Leopard installer will work that does not say Upgrade, DropIn, or OEM. Your office needs to call AppleCare to get replacement discs for you if they lost them. They should not distribute it without the original discs.

There is no such thing as a "clean install" in Mac OS X, as my user tip explains:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607614

The full retail runs about $29.95 USD.

There is no storage cap but you do need the proper OSX installation disk in order to make it work.

I've had MANY issues due to my newness in the land of Mac, but after upgrading to an Seagate Momentus drive, things went perfectly as far as the OS instal went!

Good luck with it!

Hi,

Hope you can help me, I am the same situation of the use replied.
I bought a SuperTalent Ultradrive FTM28GX25H ultra SATA SSD for my Macbook Pro 2,53MHz (MacBookPro5,4) Boot ROM (MBP53.00AC.B03) Serial number (W80059M67XJ), so 2010 week 05.
I have the original DVD supplied with my Mac.
I cannot install the MacOSX from scratch (inserting the DVD and holding C). Once the installation start coping files (after having initialized the disk as usual (GUID Mac OS extented (Journaled)), the install stop!

There's no way to boot with the drive installed inside the Mac, but setting up the SSD drive in external BOX it works as for the user of the previous post.

The SSD seems to work in a standard PC setting the drive from BIOS as IDE, but there's no way to make it work with my Mac unfortunately.

Now I found your reply very interesting , I'd like to understand if my Mac cannot work with SSD drive or the SSD i bought is damage and i have to RMA it.

Could you help me please?

Regards,
Paolo

Pauli,
Please start a new topic here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1293&start=0
You'll get a wider audience and won't confuse the original poster with solutions that don't apply to them.

Message was edited by: a brody (Corrected link)

Sounds like a problem with the optical drive or hard disk. Get them examined.

Then the interface to the hard drive may be faulty from the logicboard or the controller might be faulty.