Mine is an OWC.To increase the SSD capacity of these MacBooks, we need to remove all the SSD chips and replace them with bigger capacity SSD chips. What make and model is the SSD? The only SSDs that seem fully Mac-friendly are the Crucial MX series (skip the BX series) or Other World Computing SSDs. CCC insures all needed boot files plus the important recovery and diagnostic functions are properly created on the new volume. I used Carbon Copy Cloner ( ) to clone my 2012 MBP's HD to a new SSD. If the SSD is to be either an internal of external boot volume, you do not copy the old drive to the new one, you clone it. If setting up an external boot volume, the USB enclosure must be USB3 and the SSD inside must be rated SATA 6GB/sec to see maximum benefit. You do not need a USB cable for internal installation, but should replace the internal hard drive cable when changing the internal boot drive. Are you wanting the SSD to be an internal boot volume, an external boot volume, or ether internal or external non-bootable storage? Those options can make a different in how we recommend you proceed. Additional info, this is a OWC 250GB Electra 3G 2.5' SATA 300 SSD purchased from Mac Upgrades in the UK and is compatible with this model of MacBook Pro 1098 8

This is what I have done so far Backed up to Airport Time CapsuleUpgraded memory only, restarted to make sure it was accepted, all goodReplaced the hard drive for the SSD, re-started using command+R and also command+option+R which had no effect, presumably because it's older hardware that doesn't support thisConnected the old MacBook to my newer MacBook via Firewire port and successfully mounted it in Disk Utility, formatted the SSD and restored the backup onto it, took forever and left it overnight, but 1st thing in the morning it had a restore successful message.Started the 2009 MacBook and got the Apple logo followed by the No Entry sign :-(, against tried command+R and Command+option+R but these did nothing.Connected back up to other MacBook pro via Firewire port, could see drive in Disk Utility so ran 1st aid on it, it found quite a few issues but when it came to fixing them said unable to fix and was returning to original mounted state, it then came up with an error saying unable to complete and un-mounted the drive.Tried to connect again via Firewire but now my working MacBook pro cannot even find the drive in Disk Utility so is now completely uselessAny ideas how to get around this, why can't I do an internet restore, why did the restore from backup not work, why did the 1st aid not only not work but made it even worse so that I can't even find the disk.Open to suggestions please, otherwise that was a complete waste of money on a SSD that I cannot use and wasn't cheap.

Macbook Pro 2009 Upgrading to SSD issue I've got an older MacBook Pro 2009 13' which although works is painfully slow so I decided to max to memory and upgrade to a SSD, but I'm having some issues.

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