SAT II 2.5" Solid State Drive installed in my Toshiba U200 Notebook won't bootup

I want to install my SSD in my laptop. Actually, I already have. First, I cloned the old HDD, using Acronis Migrate Easy 7. I also used a USB enclosure to do the cloning. As far as I can tell, I have a perfect clone of the old drive on the new drive. My problem is that the laptop will not bootup with the new SSD. I get error msg: a disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart. I looked in the bios (system setup) and see the Built-in HDD = Primary IDE(IFQH/IRQ14). Can this setting be changed? How do you access it. What I really want to know is did I make a mistake in buying this drive for my old U200? Thanks, stanthemanc

You sound like a couple other threads and people.
The power management in the 2008. 10.8.2 trouble but 8.3 seems okay.
SSDs always take special care and instructions for handling.
You do not want to try do you realize that "Open Firmware" died with PowerMacs and you are on EFI? Actually yours got the first taste of UEFI / EFI64 which is of itself enough "off" the standard that it should have been updated if possible, is not blessed certifed by Apple and Microsoft for UEFI under Windows.
And you have two PCIe 2.x slots and two that are 1.1 slots. Which makes for issues too.
Things that may be issue and not obvious:
PRAM battery
Keyboard or its cable
any and all external devices
PCIe cards
Your video card (which is not listed)
Faulty FBDIMM(s)
The fact 10.8 runs on other hardware has no bearing on how well it was tested and implemented on Early 2008 which are entirely different hardware, firmware, processors, etc.
I saw one person that the front fan had so much dust it was not cooling the system down.
Which leads to: what are you using to monitor system thermal sensor temp readings?
And, please do (on a new fresh clean install of Mac OS) uses SmcFanControl 2.4+
I would hope you kept 10.6.8 and can dual boot, but otherwise, create one for now for testing, some of your reading should have come up with those where it works with SL and had issues with ML (and Lion).
The lack of Rosetta. The need to do a clean install of ML rather than update to new OS over SL (and carry around old stuff for years and multiple OS's).
Sometimes the best test for RAM is to replace with known good new set ($31 Amazon).
Don't rule out video card, especially if it is still the OEM 2600XT or 8800GT.

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Hi:
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There are hundreds of HP notebooks out there, and unless someone has actually installed (or attempted to install) a SSD in that particular model, all we can do is speculate.
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http://www.crucial.com/upgrade/HP+-+Compaq-memory/Presario+CQ62+Series/Presario+CQ62-215DX-upgrades....
You can buy from 120Gb to 960Gb. I bought one Crucial 960Gb last week but from Amazon
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Hi:
If a SATA II drive is a lot less, then probably yes.
Notebook specs are very sketchy.
The chipset may be capable of SATA III transfer speeds, but HP may not have SATA III controllers on the motherboard.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/value-chipsets/mobile-chipset-hm65.html
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I apologize for starting a new thread on a new forum; however, I am running out of research time.
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Hello to all.
I'd like to know why AHCI mode is being suggested to use for SSD's? Please tell me why. I just don't understand. I think using Raid 0 Array would be the better choice. How does AHCI mode vary compaired to Raid 0 ? Is AHCI a better Mode? Does it give better performance then Raid 0?
I see alot of you are having problems setting up SSD's. I have read the first thing you need to do is make sure the firmware on any SSD you use should be updated.
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SAT II 2.5" Solid State Drive installed in my Toshiba U200 Notebook won't bootup

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