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I cloned the original/source drive, via USB, Carbon Copy Cloner, to a Crucial MX100 256GB SSD.  The clone process completed without errors.  I powered down the system to do a start-up from the USB drive to see if it would boot.  The computer will not start from the source drive and holding the Option key to select a boot drive never gets that far.
I can hear the optical drive try to spin up, the status light blinks quickly like it is trying to start and then quits, remaining a steady light.  I have tried Cmd + R at boot without success.  Tried the PRAM reset, also the SMC reset.
There is plenty of room on the source drive, at least 160GB.  The target drive is the same size as the source drive.
Prior to cloning the source drive and powering down, the computer was operating flawlessly.  This an early 2008 model with the 2.5Mhz processor.
Any recommendations?  I am hesitant to remove the source drive and install the cloned SSD for concern that I'll end up with some other trouble.
I do not have a start up disk.  BTW, the OS X is Yosemite, the most recent version, .10, I think.
Thanks,
Bob

wsev1955 wrote:
I have a HP Pavilion Dv4170us laptop added some new upgrades to it.. max RAM 2GB... a new battery... and I bought a 160GB samsung IDE drive to replace the origional 100GB drive...Using EZ Gig II software and usb drive adapter I successfuly cloned the smaller hard drive but when I swaped them out it won't boot windows xp.. just a black screen with the blinking curser at the top left corner... using my windows xp pro disc.. i ran the system recovery and tried first fix mbr command... then I tried fixboot.. I also looked for the boot.ini file which is not in the C: root drive...I only found a back up copy of it in the windows/pss folder... this is on both drives.. so the cloeing copied it all... but the origional drive will boot and the new one won't... I even tried reinstalling XP as a repair installation...still nothing... any ideas??
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