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Sep 21, 2012 7:07 PM in response to ggulik329by BGreg,Have you brought up Disk Utility to partition the SSD? If not, nothing can access it. Bring up it up, click the SSD on the left, click the partition tab, tell it how many partitions (most use one), give it a name, format should be OS X Extended (journaled), click options and be sure it's GUID format, click OK, then click apply. You should be able to access it after setting up the partition.
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Sep 22, 2012 4:01 AM in response to BGregby ggulik329,How do I boot into a Disk Utility to do that if the drive doesn't already have an OS on it?
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Sep 22, 2012 4:50 AM in response to ggulik329by BGreg,When you boot into Lion off your USB drive, does it bring up a menu bar that has a Utilities item on it? Disk Utilities would be under that.
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Sep 22, 2012 5:09 AM in response to BGregby ggulik329,I don't get any menu like that. When I hold down Option I get the hard drive adn the USB drive. I choose the USB drive and it starts to boot within moments the Apple logo changes to a gray circle with a slash.
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Sep 22, 2012 7:13 PM in response to ggulik329by BGreg,Ugh ... new plan ... see this Apple note on installation from another mac. It may actually be easiest to go to your local Apple store and have them reload the operating system.