Prohibitory Sign after installing High Sierra to a brand new SSD

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Prohibitory Sign after installing High Sierra to a brand new SSD

Hi, I'm having a problem doing a clean install of macOS High Sierra on a MacBook Pro 13 early 2011, I installed a brand new SSD and tried to install High Sierra but I'm having issues I've tried doing Internet recovery and USB bootable but both won't work, the SSD works perfectly cause I tried on a laptop and installed Windows on it to discard SSD failure, however I'm encountering two different results while installing High Sierra by Internet Recovery before finishing it shows a message box with "Cannot Open File" and when installing by USB it finishes installing but when restarting it shows a prohibitory sign.

MacBook Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.2), null

Posted on Mar 3, 2018 3:28 PM

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Answer 1

DonH49

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Mar 3, 2018 4:00 PM in response to Joaquin Romero

did you prepare the SSD before doing the install? once you do that erase to take it to APFS then you should end up with media and container and one volume. Then do first aid on the volume then do the install.

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Answer 2

Mar 3, 2018 4:05 PM in response to Joaquin Romero

KiltedTim makes a valid point. We know that High Sierra hates Samsung T5 SSDs, and probably others.

Your early-2011 machine did not originally have a Recovery partition because it was still shipping with Snow Leopard Recovery DVD. Unless you have previously installed Lion or later, there won't be any capability to boot into Recovery without a successful SSD installation of High Sierra.

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Answer 3

Mar 3, 2018 4:33 PM in response to VikingOSX

I tried installing Mac OS X Lion and had the same problem so I bought a sata Adapter to USB from Amazon but delivery is on Tuesday 6, I'm doing a time machine back up and hopefully it'll work on my ssd

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Answer 4

Mar 4, 2018 8:46 AM in response to Joaquin Romero

Sounds very strange. If I was in you I would put or connect the SSD somewhere in order to get it completly trimmed and try to reinstall. Can also think that the SSD is failured no matter if it works on Win.

Simon

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Answer 5

Mar 4, 2018 8:57 AM in response to majortom1967

Yes I thought that before installing Windows on the SSD but I also installed the software utilities the manufacturer provides and all the tests said the disk is working fine even the write/read speed is normal, so if I send it back for replace they would test the disk and say is working fine

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John Galt

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Mar 4, 2018 1:16 PM in response to Joaquin Romero

Some SSDs work, some don't.

If you are going to modify a Mac by replacing its internal hard disk drive with a solid state drive (an action Apple does not support) then replace it with a model manufactured and supplied by a vendor known to support Macs. PC-centric vendors don't qualify.

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Answer 7

KiltedTim

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Mar 3, 2018 3:45 PM in response to Joaquin Romero

Sounds to me like the SSD you got is not compatible with your Mac...

Just because it worked in a PC does not mean it will work in your machine.

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Answer 8

Mar 3, 2018 4:25 PM in response to KiltedTim

Well I contacted the manufacturer and they assured me the disk is compatible with Mac and PC

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Answer 9

Mar 3, 2018 4:29 PM in response to DonH49

Yes I did, I even tried APFS, APFS (Encrypted) and Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and First aid runs and says everything is fine.

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Answer 10

Mar 4, 2018 9:16 AM in response to Joaquin Romero

SATA3 on SATA3 I suppose... I go back on my initial position. Trim it.

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Answer 11

Mar 4, 2018 9:55 AM in response to majortom1967

And how do I do that?

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Answer 12

KiltedTim

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Mar 4, 2018 10:02 AM in response to Joaquin Romero

Maybe you would like to tell us exactly what you got... As has been previously stated, there are a number of SSDs that are known to have problems with macOS.

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