![]() ![]() Thank you in advance for any help with this. Perhaps the hard drive itself is fatally compromised? Does anyone know why installing Catalina via a perfectly healthy external hard drive would cause the macbook pro to vfreeze? Am I missing something? Could the motherboard or logic board be the issue? If it's software related wouldn't it be the hard drive and no other hardware at fault? So at this stage, I'm wondering whether it would help if I replaced the hard drive. Whether your iMac is slow, your Mac Pro needs a tuneup, your Macbook Pro is running slow, or you want your MacBook Pro to run faster, we can help. They diagnosed it and said I needed a new battery and that software was corrupted. While the specific instructions use a MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2020) as an example, the steps differ only slightly (if at all) from how to speed up an iMac, for example. I already took it to an authorized Apple repair center. But again it freezes about 80% of the way. ![]() The Loading Bar appears only if you have disk encryption enabled. A lot of people have noticed slower bootup times on any mac after upgrading to Big Sur, me also coming from Catalina on my old Mac. When I hold down the option key, I see "Install Calatina" and then get taken to the Mac logo window with a progress bar. ago yep its normal, I think its just Big Sur being rather bloated. I finally downloaded Catalina to an external hard drive and tried to install that way. After the spinning globe, I get taken to the Mac logo screen with a progress bar that freezes 75% of the way. My 2012 macbook pro retina won't install via the regular recovery method when I boot into safe mode. The problem is that I can now not even perform a recovery install via any method. And sorry for long post, and thanks in advance for any suggestions that you don’t see here.Unable to boot into Catalina by any method, progress bar keeps freezing.even in safe mode I've had to erase my Mac hard drive after repeated kernel panics. Sorry, if I should have started a new topic, but this one existed with the same description. Bad firmware write? Where do I find just the firmware to write? The wider drive cable needed that’s for 2012 on a 2010? I’m ready for your smart ideas. SATA III issue? Where can I even find a SATA II SSD? Is it a firmware issue? As I said 10.13 was installed, and has the firmware for SSD and for APFS drive settings. Choose those items you want to disable and hit the 'Disable' button to accelerate Mac. The only model I’ve seen that just doesn’t fly across the table in happiness with an SSD.Ĭould it be the SATA II vs. Select 'Speed Up Your Mac' tab on the app and click the big 'Start Now' button for locating the items that you need to disable. Or, post in support if I know the answer or have been through it. I don’t like to post, I like to read so I don’t have to post. Now, after 15 years of seeing almost everything, I’m completely stumped and really tired of searching for hours and hours to no avail. I do that, all the way to the connector on the logic board it is not touching any aluminum. I read to line the cage where the SSD fits with nylon electrical tape to help insulate the drive cable from shorting. I search, starting here, and find this thread among others. I put the original back in, fast as normal (not fast ssd though), and sellable to a needy client. I select the SSD as the startup disk, restart. ![]() Everytime I click the mouse - color wheel. Now I have my new cable, new SSD, ready to go. So, I assume I got a bad SSD (although it formats fine in my 2019 MBP). Same exact results, but 9 hours to build a 34 minute system drive. But, wait, it works fast and fine on the rotational drive. WHATTT? Bad comm to the drive = bad cable. It starts to calculate the time to install, 9 minutes, then 45 minutes, then 1 hour 53 minutes, come back in about a half hour it says 7 hours, 23 minutes. It goes through the normal steps (language, disk utility, etc.) Then it starts the build to the SSD. I formatted it, as normal, and ready to build via my USB with High Sierra natively supported. I just put one in a 2008 MacBook and it is lightning fast, as expected.īut, this 2010 is about to cause me to lose my last 5 hairs. The ADATA 240 or 480 SATA III is what I use on all my rebuilds, never an issue. Help, never have I seen this in 15 years…Ģ010 MacBook Pro, 2.4ghz C2D, 8 gig ram, (320 original rotational drive) 240 ADATA SSD upgrade attempted, but failed. ![]()
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