Upgrade to SSD for Early 2011 MBP messed up computer

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Upgrade to SSD for Early 2011 MBP messed up computer

So I decided to upgrade to a new SSD for my MBP. I am running OS mavericks. I upgraded the RAM no problem. The drive I upgraded to is a Crucial M550 1TB SSD.

I decided to put it in the computer and reformat it from there instead of using carbon copy cloner. I formatted the drive, and tried to restore it from a time machine backup. When it said that there was one hour remaining, it suddenly "finished."

When it asked me to put in my iCloud information, I couldn't do it. It said something along the lines of "there was an error connecting to the server." I decided to log in once I actually started the computer up.

When the computer completely booted my programs opened and they all said that they couldn't connect to their respective "servers," like mail accounts, calendar accounts, and etc. And every site visited in safari says it cannot verify the certificate. I cannot log into iCloud or anything on my computer and my date was reset to the year 2000. I am at a complete loss as to what to do now. I am attempting to restore again but I don't know how it will help.

Any ideas?

P.S. It essentially messed my entire computer up so I really don't know which community to put this in.

Posted on Jul 8, 2014 8:48 PM

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Rald Author

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Jul 8, 2014 8:58 PM in response to Rald

P.S. This post was a bit rushed as I am trying very hard to find a solution quickly (I have to do things tomorrow) so I apologize if there isn't enough information or there is missing info. Let me know what else I should give you guys.

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Linc Davis

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Jul 8, 2014 9:04 PM in response to Rald

Open the Date & Time preference pane and check the box to set the date & time automatically. If it doesn't happen, set them manually.

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Rald Author

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Jul 8, 2014 9:06 PM in response to Linc Davis

It was already checked. The issue is that I cannot log into icloud (or even facebook) and browsing is hard to do. Also, my prevoius hard drive used 600GB and the new drive only shows ~500 in use ATM.

I am currently restoring from the backup again to see if it will work now. As a side note when I started it up the first time after installation I had to do an internet recovery thing so that I could access the disk utility and do the process of formatting the new drive and restoring from time machine. Not sure how much help that information is, but the more the merrier.

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Rald Author

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Jul 8, 2014 9:35 PM in response to Rald

Ok. So I looked up all the errors I have had individually, and found that incorrect date/time may be an explanation for the problems I am having. Not sure why those are the reasons, but as soon as my computer is done restoring again (I still don't know why it showed it as still having an hour left for the restore) I will try that if I still have problems.

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Rald Author

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Jul 9, 2014 1:09 AM in response to Linc Davis

Well I'll be ******.

It solved everything.

Thanks!

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Rald Author

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Jul 9, 2014 10:48 AM in response to Linc Davis

I would like to know why it restored from the backup like that. I thought time machine was supposed to restore everything to the way it was before? Also, time machine is backing up my entire hard drive again, which I am told is normal for a new hard drive?

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Rald Author

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Jul 9, 2014 6:44 PM in response to Rald

NNow I am getting error 45054 in iTunes updating things. Time machine did not work for me as it should have.

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