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Hi I'm new to the forum, not exactly a techie, so forgive me for my ignorance here. I have a late 2015 27" 4 Ghz Intel Corei i7 iMac, with 32Gb Ram with a 2TB Fusion Drive. My hard drive was making very strange noises, so I created a partition on my 8GB external drive (Western Digital 8GB)...

Hi all! Hope you’re all well? After installing a 1TB SSD in my mates laptop swapping out the apple 128GB one, for him the machine sometimes randomly restarts. The SSD that I put in was a crucial P5, could this be that it takes time for the new SSD to adjust to the machine, or is this apple being...

Hello — hope to get some advice. I have a mid-2011 21.5 inch iMac running on High Sierra and I attempted to replace the HDD with a new 2TB Crucial SSD (CT2000MX500SSD1) but am experiencing a non-detection error — an alternating question mark folder icon with the Apple logo and a cross icon...

Hi all, because memory was running out I bought a new SSD (Samsung PM981 512GB NVMe M.2, with adapter) for my MacBook Air 13" Mid 2013 (A1466). Before the installation I made a TimeMachine-Backup on an external SSD. I also created an installation USB stick for macOS Catalina (is also currently...

Hi everyone, I just upgraded from a SSD 128GB HD to a Crucial P1 500GB SSD using a Sintech Adapter. I plugged in a bootable USB Mojave flash drive and an external hard drive with a time machine backup and in MacOS Utilities the new hard drive is found. I have tried rebooting through the USB...

Hello. I have an issue with installing Catalina on my 13” 2013 MacBook Pro. Two years ago, I upgraded the hard drive to a 1gb SSD (OWC Aura). When I installed other OS upgrades since then, I never had a problem. However, today, I received this error: MacOS cold not be installed on your...

Hi, hope someone here can help me solve this: I have a 2012 MacBook Pro 16gb RAM, running the latest Mojave OS X. I had a 500gb SSD drive seemingly go bad. Replaced it with a new 500 gb SSD. Running fine until a few days in when screen goes blank and MacBook restarts then 5 seconds later...

RESOLVED Hi. I get a "There was an error while installing Mac OS X..." during install. I feel like I'm sooo close to bringing this imac back to life after weeks of struggle...but it wants to fight me at the last mile. It's a brand new ssd. Late 2006 iMac. 1GB RAM. 120GB SSD. I set the...