Hi,
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro, the original hard drive failed so I decided to pick up an SSD (crucial M4 128gb) since they're cheap(ish) now. It's in the laptop now but I'm having problems installing OS X on it.
I'm running on the original start up disk (leopard, I have the snow leopard disk too but I'm told that since snow leopard is built on leopard I need to install leopard first). When I get to `select the disk where you want to install OS X' nothing shows up. It just says `examining available disks...' forever.
Going into the disk utility the SSD still doesn't show up at all. Interestingly the system profiler does have it listed in SATA, so I'm pretty sure it's in properly.
Is this the wrong way to go about things? Have I forgotten to format the SSD or something important?
Thanks
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro, the original hard drive failed so I decided to pick up an SSD (crucial M4 128gb) since they're cheap(ish) now. It's in the laptop now but I'm having problems installing OS X on it.
I'm running on the original start up disk (leopard, I have the snow leopard disk too but I'm told that since snow leopard is built on leopard I need to install leopard first). When I get to `select the disk where you want to install OS X' nothing shows up. It just says `examining available disks...' forever.
Going into the disk utility the SSD still doesn't show up at all. Interestingly the system profiler does have it listed in SATA, so I'm pretty sure it's in properly.
Is this the wrong way to go about things? Have I forgotten to format the SSD or something important?
Thanks