Crossed out circle on boot - new SSD

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MagnusPalu Author

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Crossed out circle on boot - new SSD

Hi, I hope you can help.

I'll be referring to two different disks:

A HDD sitting in a optibay, which i'm currently running OSX Lion from, and

A fresh SSD in the mainbay.

1. SSD failed one day, so I got a new one.

2. New SSD didn't show up, so I switched SATA-cable out.

3. SSD showed up.

4. Erased to mac os journaled, reinstalled Snow Leopard from disk.

5. Did System update, and tried to install Mountain Lion.

6. ML gave message: "Can't install, error with SSD, can't repair"-ish.

7. Booted me back into HDD, now with a new system language??

8. Reformatted SSD. (Didn't partition)

9. Installed new Snow Leopard.

10. Installation completed, but on reboot i get the crossed out circle.

What could possible be wrong?

Thanks,

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)

Posted on Oct 22, 2012 9:54 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 22, 2012 10:20 PM in response to MagnusPalu

Just to be clear, what kind of SSD did you

purchase?

Also are you booting from an Optical drive adapter?

You may want to format your SSD in an external case and then, once formatted

Install it into your MacBook Pro.

Hmm, with all you are telling me

formatting shouldnt have been an issue

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Answer 2

MagnusPalu Author

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Oct 22, 2012 10:54 PM in response to conorfromvictoria

A Intel 520 series 120 gb SSD. (I'd like to note, that this worked for 4 months prior to error)

I'm booting from the SuperDrive, that I've put in an external exclosure.

Just 5 minutes ago, the Mac decided to boot into the SSD and it showed me the welcome-video to Snow Leopard. I have no clue on how this happened, since I had it boot into the HDD just half an hour ago.

Should i try cloning the system+apps from the HDD to SSD? If the Snow Leopard system-cd is corrupted?

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Answer 3

MagnusPalu Author

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Oct 23, 2012 12:27 AM in response to MagnusPalu

Am i safe to upgrade to Mountain Lion now?

Or should i try copying the HDD data to the SSD (so the Lion+apps get transfered).

I'm imaging this could be done by:

1. Booting to HDD

2. Format SSD

3. Use SuperDuper to clone Apps+System to SSD.

That would "make sure" that the system isn't corrupted, since it's working on the HDD.

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Answer 4

dmdimon

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Oct 23, 2012 1:15 AM in response to MagnusPalu

and you have 2011 MBP? If so - update firmware to latest and everything will be ok.

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MagnusPalu Author

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Oct 23, 2012 1:21 AM in response to dmdimon

Yes, early 2011.

Ooooh, there was actually a system update from before ML-upgrade, that i ignored, because i thought it would automatically get installed with ML. That may be the problem?

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Answer 6

dmdimon

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Oct 23, 2012 1:40 AM in response to MagnusPalu

That IS problem.

Without that firmware update 2011 MBPs work highly unstable with SATA III devices.

Install every firmware update you'll find not installed.

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MagnusPalu Author

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Oct 23, 2012 3:07 AM in response to dmdimon

I just updated everything possible. There wasn't any firmware updates however.

I'll check the ML install when I get home. Thanks.

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Answer 8

dmdimon

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Oct 23, 2012 3:13 AM in response to MagnusPalu

I have early 2011 MBP with SSD myself. There was at least 1 firmware update until SSD begin to work reliably. If you installed it - recheck that all connectors are good fitted into places.

But I think you're somehow missing that FW update was not done. there told how to check version of FW installed - check it against latest - is it same?

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