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Hi, thank you for taking the time to read this post. I have a project going on right now. I've owned Macs for decades, but haven't been really up to date the past few years.
I've got an early 2009 MacBook Pro, 17" with 8gb RAM. I recently bought an OWC SSD (259gb) with external drive enclosure. I will be installing the SSD and swapping the old HD to the external enclosure. Currently, the SSD is in the enclosure, I have initialized it for my Mac with Disk Utility. The questions are:
1. The installer won't allow El Capitan to be installed to the SSD. It gives me an error since no OS is currently installed on it. I don't want to update the original drive, how can I do this simply?
2. The computer originally belonged to my brother, I would like to have my own login/pw, it also has an icloud account, can I still have access to the online back-uo, and set up my own account?
Thank you for your time and knowledge.
I've got an early 2009 MacBook Pro, 17" with 8gb RAM. I recently bought an OWC SSD (259gb) with external drive enclosure. I will be installing the SSD and swapping the old HD to the external enclosure. Currently, the SSD is in the enclosure, I have initialized it for my Mac with Disk Utility. The questions are:
1. The installer won't allow El Capitan to be installed to the SSD. It gives me an error since no OS is currently installed on it. I don't want to update the original drive, how can I do this simply?
2. The computer originally belonged to my brother, I would like to have my own login/pw, it also has an icloud account, can I still have access to the online back-uo, and set up my own account?
Thank you for your time and knowledge.
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