“I just bought this SSD today, did an install myself with no issues. I go to turn on my MacBook to be greeted with the blinking, question mark folder. My hard drive cable is fine because it reads on old SSD just fine. I can’t “Erase” any harddrive either.”
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Did you install an OS onto it first? before you installed it into your computer? if not, start up from your OS disk/thumbdrive and install OS onto it. The question mark is the computer asking you where the Operating System is.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I had a similar problem on a new Dell XPS 8930. I was it using as a boot drive worked great for about 21/2 weeks then same thing, it disappeared. Couldn't boot, couldn't do anything but restart and restart but never getting anywhere. After reinstalling OS on a HDD, I checked the SSD drive and it had failed, done Couldn't reformat nothing, it was toast. I lost at least 2 days lost on re-installs. I read later where these lower end SSDs tend to fail more frequently than the higher end ones. I don't know, but for now I'm sticking with a HDD for a boot drive until I can find out more about SSD's. I loved the speed it had with booting the system and firing up Photoshop, and other programs, it just didn't last very long. I might have just gotten a lemon, but I'm now a little spooked by these drives.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Do you have a boot DVD or boot USB stick for MacOS, or a USB external case you can pop eitherdrive into so that you can hook up both drives? However you get to Disk Utility, select the new SSD, and chhose to PARTITION the drive. In the Partition window, choose a 1 Volume partition scheme from that popup, and partition the drive with the Apple Partition Map. Once that is done, choose again to Partition the drive. This time, partition the drive to however many volumes you'd want...and pick GUID partition map. This should leave you with a freshly blank drive that's prepared to receive an installation of MacOS. I always first wipe new drives completely to an Apple Partition Map because I feel like that will eliminate any proprietary wierdness that the manufacturer used to format the drive at the factory. I wish you well and good luck!
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I'm not an ios person, but i have to first add the new ssd as a second drive, start windows disk manager, and initialize the new drive. I can then use the SSD in as a single drive in a different system and install the new OS.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.macs use journaling. you have to initialize the drive to be journaled and work with mac OS.
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