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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bluto" data-source="post: 1631179" data-attributes="member: 340738">I have a 2009 Macbook Pro 13" running snow leopard and would like to upgrade to a solid state drive, however a) my optical drive is broken, so I can't reinstall snow leopard by CDb) I can't use my brand new external optical drive because it doesn't work with the macbook pro with factory installed optical drives andc) I can't change the code to get the external drive to work because i'm not good with computers, and when I try to open a terminal it says "shell set to illegal value".I have an external hard drive and tried booting to that without success. Changing the drive is easy, but how can I install my OS?</blockquote>