Installing OS on a new SSD with Yosemite

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Hello,

I purchased a SSD from crucial (512gig) and installed it on my macbook pro and loaded Yosemite as the OS.

I am now trying to do the same for a black macbook (mid-2007) with a 128 gig SSD from crucial, but I am not able to. I have partitioned the drive correctly and I know this third-party drive is compatible with yosemite, but I keep getting this sign (please look at the pictures) after I hold down the option key to load yosemite.

Does anyone know what the problem might be? rsz_img_2173.jpg

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15" MBP '06 2.33 C2D 4GB 10.7; 13" MBA '14 1.8 i7 8GB 10.11; 21" iMac '13 2.9 i5 8GB 10.11; 6S
An '07 MacBook is not compatible with Yosemite - I believe the max OS X version for that model is Lion.
 

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Yep. You would need at least a late 2008 aluminum MacBook to be able to run Yosemite. Your black MacBook can run Lion, nothing after that.
 
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Thank you so much for the prompt reply.

I went ahead and made a lion boot disk and it worked!

Cheers!
 

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