Installing a ssd into a mid 2010 15 inch MBP with a clean Mavericks install
I have the above mentioned computer, and it is beginning to show signs of hard drive issues. I have tried to repair it with disk utilities, but it won't and says I need to reformat. The current hard drive is a seagate hybrid with a little ssd and a 750 gb 7200 rpm drive (the original drive was cloned over, so this hard drive's software has been in use through updates and new OS's for a little over three years now). I am running Mavericks now with no problems, but I wanted to do this before a catastrophic oops. To be honest, the hard drive probably isn't bad, just had some os read/write errors over the years that have built up (probably because this was my first mac and I did not know how to use it at first).
How do I go about upgrading to the ssd? Do I need to make a bootable usb stick so I can format the new drive and boot enough to download mavericks from the app store or does mavericks keep a portion of itself in the computer memory so it can help recover from a hard drive crash?
Honestly, I don't know what other questions to ask (yet).
David
The easiest way would be to put the SSD into a 2.5 enclosure then boot into the Recovery partition by holding down Command and R at boot. Use disk utility to prep the new drive then install to it.
Those few errors you're talking about could be due to a faulty SATA cable. That will really show itself with an SSD, so if you get a lot of errors after moving the SSD in, that's a likely culprit.
By the way, the easiest way to do this if you don't need a clean install is with Carbon Copy Cloner. Just clone your existing drive to the SSD.
http://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-2-5-Inch-Aluminum-Enclosure-EC-TB4P/dp/B005EIGUD4/ ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391917664&sr=8-1&keywords=2.5+enclosure+usb+3.0
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