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- Macbook Pro 15" 2.53GHz Mid 2009, 4GB DDR3 1066MHz, 1TB WD Scorpio Blue 5200 RPM, OS X 10.6.7
I have a Macbook Pro (Mid 2009) 15" 2.53GHz running OS X 10.6.7. I have recently upgraded from 4GB (2x2GB) of RAM to 8GB (2x4GB Kingston DDR3 1066MHz SODimm). That upgrade went smoothly and without issue.
I purchased a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB 5200 RPM 8MB (WD10TPVT) to upgrade the 250GB drive that came standard. I used Winclone to copy my Bootcamp partition (Win XP Pro 32bit) to my external drive (WD My Book Essential) which I also use for Time Machine. I made sure to back up Time Machine as well to have a recent copy of my machine.
I swapped out the drives and booted from the Mac DVD that came with my MBP. I selected to restore the Time Machine back up and let that run. When it rebooted, I got the grey Apple screen with the swirling cog and it would not go past that and I let it run for well over an hour. I finally booted from the Mac DVD and went into Disc Utility. I Verified Permissions and came up with many issues. I had it correct permissions and let it reboot, but came up with the same issue.
I then restored an older back up from Time Machine and the same issue occurred. Finally, I reinstalled Snow Leopard and let it reboot. To my surprise, almost all my data was there, but I needed all the software updates.
After getting all those, my Macbook Pro is very sluggish to boot and every task is met with the beach ball. I restored my Windows partition and that works just fine. I've verified and corrected permissions once again, as well as verified the disk. The verified permissions comes up with more problems and it states it fixes them all.
I'm not really sure what to try next. I'm a real novice with OS X, as I am a Windows convert as of early 2010. Any and all help is appreciated. Hope I got all the info you might need.
I purchased a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB 5200 RPM 8MB (WD10TPVT) to upgrade the 250GB drive that came standard. I used Winclone to copy my Bootcamp partition (Win XP Pro 32bit) to my external drive (WD My Book Essential) which I also use for Time Machine. I made sure to back up Time Machine as well to have a recent copy of my machine.
I swapped out the drives and booted from the Mac DVD that came with my MBP. I selected to restore the Time Machine back up and let that run. When it rebooted, I got the grey Apple screen with the swirling cog and it would not go past that and I let it run for well over an hour. I finally booted from the Mac DVD and went into Disc Utility. I Verified Permissions and came up with many issues. I had it correct permissions and let it reboot, but came up with the same issue.
I then restored an older back up from Time Machine and the same issue occurred. Finally, I reinstalled Snow Leopard and let it reboot. To my surprise, almost all my data was there, but I needed all the software updates.
After getting all those, my Macbook Pro is very sluggish to boot and every task is met with the beach ball. I restored my Windows partition and that works just fine. I've verified and corrected permissions once again, as well as verified the disk. The verified permissions comes up with more problems and it states it fixes them all.
I'm not really sure what to try next. I'm a real novice with OS X, as I am a Windows convert as of early 2010. Any and all help is appreciated. Hope I got all the info you might need.