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MacBook Pro Mid-2009 13 inch does not recognize replaced hard drive
As the title states, I recently got a used Hard Drive from another MacBook Pro and installed it into my MacBook. The problem, is the laptop will not recognize it at all. The old hard drive just goes ...
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What do I need to know to buy an SSD drive for a 2008 MacBook 5,1?
I'd like to buy an SSD drive for my MacBook aluminium (MacBook5,1 from 2008). What do I need to know to buy one which will work fine with it?
I.e. years ago any IDE drive would fit any IDE slot, but ...
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Diagnosing Unrecognized Hard drives
I have a macbook pro 13 late 2011. My setup: i have a HDD in the main bay for my files, and a SSD in the optibay with the OS on. The other day i received the message randomly out of the blue which ...
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What is an SSD drive's negotiated link speed?
When I look at my Apple SSD TS256C (Toshiba) in the System Profiler on my MacBook Pro (Late 2011), I see:
Link Speed: 6 Gigabit
Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Why is that? Does that mean ...
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MacBook Pro hard disk failure. How to recover and clean install?
I have a MacBook pro, 2009, 13 inch, Original Snow leopard OS.
Recently, I was experiencing that my MacBook some times froze or restarted automatically! I didn't care, and one day it did not start!
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SSD and Superdrive on Nvidia MCP79 SATA controller
Right now I have a Hitachi 320GB 5400rpm and a MATSHITADVD-R UJ-868 superdrive connected to the Nvidia MCP79 SATA controller in my MacBook Pro 5,3. The link speed of the hard disk drive is negotiated ...
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Nvidia MCP79 SATA controller caps link speed
Why is my SATA controller capping the link speed? This is what it says in my System Profiler under the Serial-ATA page:
Vendor: NVidia
Product: MCP79 AHCI
Link Speed: ...
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Does a Macbook Pro have 1 or 2 Hard Disk Controllers?
If SATA channel 1 (used by the hard drive) is damaged, could it be that SATA channel 2 (used by the SuperDrive) is fine?
I would like to know if I can use a hard drive on the SuperDrive channel even ...
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Tracking down frequent (every 20 seconds) SCSI hard disk drive access in 10.7
In a Lion Server (10.7.3 and 10.7.4 tried) system with multiple drives attached to an HPT SATA controller, there is some process that keeps accessing the hard disk drives exactly every 20 seconds. As ...
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What is the benefit of using flash memory in the Macbook Air?
I don't understand why Apple does not use SSD drives in the Macbook Air like some other manufacturers to (e.g. Asus, Samsung). The technical specifications of the Macbook Air on Apple's website never ...
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Can I enable AHCI mode of the SATA controller when booting to Windows on a MacBook with Nvidia chipset?
Is there a way to enable AHCI mode under Windows on a Macbook5,2 (white) on N-Force 730i chipset?
If you want to just say 'no', please put it in the comments instead. Thanks.
Advanced Host Controller ...
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Which SSD to choose for a white late 2009 macbook [closed]
Currently there are many reviews on SSDs, and different types of SSDs as well.
What I would like to hear is what cost effective SSDs that exists that aslo has TRIM support and will work well with ...
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Upgrade SATA connection on MBP 3,1
When replacing my HDD in my MBP 3,1 with a SSD (SATA3), I noticed that the SATA1 cable can be fully removed.
Thus I thought, that it might be possible to replace the SATA 1 cable by a SATA 3 cable in ...
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Why is my MBP not detecting my HDD/Optical Drive?
I've had a second hard drive in one of those optibay things in my MBP 5,1. It's been super awesome, until it stopped getting detected today.
The second hard drive is getting power and is spinning up, ...
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Replacing HDD on 2007 17" iMac
My iMac's HDD has died so I need to replace it. I don't just want to go like for like, does anyone know what the upper limits of the machine are?
I have a 1TB USB drive plugged in, so I'm assuming ...
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Attaching 3.5" desktop drive to MacBook SATA
I have a mid-2007 MacBook that, according to the Apple Store, has suffered some liquid damage and requires a new logic board to operate correctly, a ~$750 repair I've been told (would normally be ...
