Hello all,
I'm having some problems getting the 60gb sniper SSD I just bought to run properly in OSX. I had originally installed the SSD in my MBP blank with plans of installing a clean copy of OSX. The drive wasn't recognized. I put the OEM drive back in, and cloned the HDD over to the SSD. Put the SSD drive back in the MBP and everything booted up fine and things were running perfectly and very quickly. I closed my mac and let it sleep over night. I opened it back up the next day, and OSX was basically stuck. I could move the mouse around, and click icons on the dock, but nothing would launch and OSX would not shut down. I forced a shutdown and tried to reboot. When it was booting back up, I got the white screen with a folder and a question mark. I read something about SSD drives randomly losing data, so I thought this was my case.
I put the OEM HDD back in, and booted up into OSX just fine. I plugged in the SSD into my USB enclosure, and it was detected just fine and appeared that all data was still there. I found instructions on here for installing g.skill SSD's on Macs. I had originally pretty much done the same thing, but this time I followed the instructions(http://gskill.us/forum/showthread.php?t=6876) posted on here to a T. Clean install of OSX on my OEM HDD, then cloned that drive to the SSD. Installed the SSD back into the SATA slot on my MBP and all was great again. I also read on here to uncheck the "put hard drive to sleep" option in Energy Settings - I thought this could have been my problem. So I unchecked this, as well as disabled my Sudden Motion Sensor. After these two changes, I ran the SSDoptimizer that was posted in the instruction thread. I had high hopes that his would have resolved my issue.
Fast forward to this morning - MBP sleeping again all night. Opened to wake, OSX frozen. Reboot, and I'm getting the folder with the question mark again.
Wondering if I should even try to re-clone the drive and then try this App as mentioned in this thread. http://gskill.us/forum/showthread.php?t=7012
Not sure if this SSD is worth all this trouble.
Any suggestions as to what's going on?
Thanks!
I'm having some problems getting the 60gb sniper SSD I just bought to run properly in OSX. I had originally installed the SSD in my MBP blank with plans of installing a clean copy of OSX. The drive wasn't recognized. I put the OEM drive back in, and cloned the HDD over to the SSD. Put the SSD drive back in the MBP and everything booted up fine and things were running perfectly and very quickly. I closed my mac and let it sleep over night. I opened it back up the next day, and OSX was basically stuck. I could move the mouse around, and click icons on the dock, but nothing would launch and OSX would not shut down. I forced a shutdown and tried to reboot. When it was booting back up, I got the white screen with a folder and a question mark. I read something about SSD drives randomly losing data, so I thought this was my case.
I put the OEM HDD back in, and booted up into OSX just fine. I plugged in the SSD into my USB enclosure, and it was detected just fine and appeared that all data was still there. I found instructions on here for installing g.skill SSD's on Macs. I had originally pretty much done the same thing, but this time I followed the instructions(http://gskill.us/forum/showthread.php?t=6876) posted on here to a T. Clean install of OSX on my OEM HDD, then cloned that drive to the SSD. Installed the SSD back into the SATA slot on my MBP and all was great again. I also read on here to uncheck the "put hard drive to sleep" option in Energy Settings - I thought this could have been my problem. So I unchecked this, as well as disabled my Sudden Motion Sensor. After these two changes, I ran the SSDoptimizer that was posted in the instruction thread. I had high hopes that his would have resolved my issue.
Fast forward to this morning - MBP sleeping again all night. Opened to wake, OSX frozen. Reboot, and I'm getting the folder with the question mark again.
Wondering if I should even try to re-clone the drive and then try this App as mentioned in this thread. http://gskill.us/forum/showthread.php?t=7012
Not sure if this SSD is worth all this trouble.
Any suggestions as to what's going on?
Thanks!
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