![]() ![]() And they would only know about my upgrade if they looked up history on the HDD in their systems, though if its a problem with RAM then they shouldn't know lol.Īnyway I didn't want to wait a week until I fly home to use my home wifi, so I decided to get a copy os OS X Lion by "other means". He also told me that the warranty is now voided for my entire machine, although if something was to go wrong with another part such as RAM, if i put the optical drive back in and the HDD in its regular place, the technicians might not be able to tell. I explained the whole situation, and he went to speak to someone superior and came back with his verdict - he said he sounds like either a network problem, as I suspected, or else my mac wasn't able to recognise the SSD as a bootable drive, since it was in the original HDD bay, and the HDD was in the optibay. I arranged an appointment for Apple to call me today. I hope someone can help me! Do you think its because the HDD is in the optibay? I put the SSD in the old HDD bay to utilise the 6Gbps speeds, though should I put it in the optibay and try to install Lion on it? Thanks!Įdit SOLVED - see post number 25 for details. I've searched google for hours and came across many tips on how to fix this, but none have worked. I've almost gave up hope, I don't want to call Apple because it'll cost a bomb on a mobile phone. So I tried it on wifi, and it had a countdown of 20 minutes and seemed to complete the download, but then restarted and I was back at the Lion Recovery screen. With ethernet, this didn't work since it kept asking for a wifi connection. (I have also tried the "Recovery HD" partition on the HDD itself, not USB.) I have tried to force it into internet recovery mode by holding command + option + r. So I went to a friends house to use his wifi to see if that worked, though the same problems continued. I have had my ethernet cable in while trying this though. Keeping in mind, this is when I have selected the USB from the boot menu. It has a countdown saying it'll take a few hours, but stops after 10 mins or so and says "Can't download the additional components to install Mac OS X". Though sometimes it lets me past that screen, choose the SSD to install Lion, and it appears to work. Contact Apple Support." so I can't go any further. When I click verify, sometimes it says something like "Could not get the information for your system. It says it needs to verify the download and installation with Apple (even though I don't want to download it, it should be on the USB). When I choose to boot from it when holding the option key at startup, it goes into the recovery screen. I was going to make a bootable USB key using Apple's Lion Recovery HD app. The SSD shows up on my desktop when I boot to the old HDD, I have formatted and partitioned it ready to go - so I don't think the problem I'm having is hardware related, it all seems to be working. Installation of everything went fine (though was a tedious job putting those tiny screws back in!). I replaced my optic drive with an optibay, and put my old 500GB HDD in there, and put the SSD in the normal hard drive bay. I bought an OCZ Agility 3 SSD for my MacBook Pro (early 2011). ![]()
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