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Message: <blockquote data-quote="7Holly" data-source="post: 1621734" data-attributes="member: 338031">I am sorry if my inquiry is redundant.  My head is starting to spin a bit and I am hoping for a little bit of help.This is my situation:I have a MacBook Pro "Core i7" 2.66 17" Mid-2010.  I got home from a flight and the computer that worked the day before was suddenly not wanting to boot.  It still boots, but takes a long time and every click leads to 15 minutes of the spinning wheel.  I can also hear it get hitched up inside the case.  I took my machine nto the apple store where they ran some tests and discovered bad sectors on my hard drive.  I had purchased the 3 year warranty, but that has now expired.  Apple was going to charge me a good chunk of change to replace it with another hard drive, but would not transfer any data.  I wanted the opportunity to recover some of the data that I don’t have backed up (I know.. dumb).  The real kicker for me was that Apple will charge another $100 to get my old drive back… you know, the one that I already paid for, that belongs to me.I then went to another authorized Mac retailer  and found that my data is accessible with Target Disk Utility.  They would charge me for another hard drive, and their services to move my data off of my old drive and onto my backup drive.  They would then install a new hard drive with the OS set up.I never had a pre-built compter before this MacBook.  It was my first laptop and, prior to it, I custom built all of my previous PC’s.  This means that I do have experience inside a computer, but have never fiddled around the interior of a laptop.  Since my Apple warranty is now void, I decided to put my money into the hardware and get myself a new SSD instead of another hard drive, as well a few tools to do surgery on my buddy.I now have a Yosemite boot drive that I made on an SD card and a Samsung 840 EVO.  However, before I begin, I was reading through some different walkthroughs about drive swapping and Yosemite installation.  I keep seeing things about using a “trim enabler” which is a term I’ve never heard before.  It sounds like this 3rd party Samsung drive I purchased may not boot and that, if it does operate, it may run very poorly.  This is not good news.Is anybody able to break down this trim enabler issue with Yosemite for me?  I feel perplexed and unsure of how to proceed.  I’d be incredibly grateful for the assistance.More details on my Macbook, in case it’s helpful:2.66 GHz Core i7 (I7-620M)Intro Date:    April 13, 2010    Disc Date:    February 24, 2011Order No:    BTO/CTOModel No:    A1297 (EMC 2352*)Subfamily:    Mid-2010 17”Model ID:    MacBookPro6,1Std RAM:    4 GB    Std VRAM:    512 MB*Std Storage:    500 GB (5400 RPM)Std Optical:    8X DL "SuperDrive"[ATTACH=full]21316[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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