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I tried so many things. Orignal drive works but slow so I wanted to upgrade. I was upgrading the drive doing it via a High Sierra bootable drive I made on my iMac but that doesn’t work. I pressed OPTION on the keyboard and the Installed icon came on. I pressed it and it disappears and thats it. Tried this many times. I decided to put this new Samsung EVO SSD (250G) into my optical drive on other laptop (17” MacBook Pro) I successfully Loaded High Sierra on it. Tested it by restarting and it loaded. SO I decided to install this SSD into my 2009 Macbook Pro but all I got is a flashing Question Mark! I tried using another older SSD. It worked so I decided to wipe it and reinstalling a clean OS-X using Command+Shift+PR etc… It detected El Capitan as the OS-X to reinstall. It wiped the old and started the install the new but was abruptly by a message saying: ‘‘‘This operating system cannot be installed on this computer and to contact the manufacturer etc….’’’ I’m experiencing a lot of inconsistencies. The New SSD works on my 2010 macbook but not on this 2009 MacBook Pro. I did my research and watched many YouTube videos showing this working. The cables are fine as it reads older drives. Now that I wiped the older SSD I have no drive that works. Frustrated. PLEASE HELP.
To fix your trackpad adjust the chip plate click adjuster screw
Sadly Apple didn’t update the older OS’s (El Capitan and older) people still need for their older systems. So we need a different approach! If we can’t get to the mountain then the mountain needs to come to us! Basically, we need to trick the OS installer the systems date is within the certificates date window!
And if you can’t get to it from the control panel then you’ll need to use Terminal following this guide Changing system date from Terminal – OS X recovery After you’ve installed your OS don’t forget to reset your settings so you are accessing the Time server or manually set the date to todays date. From your other system you’ll want to make a fresh OS installer drive How to make a bootable OS X 10.11 El Capitan installer drive Also don’t forget your older MacBook only has a SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) SATA I/O interface so the drive you install needs to be able to support this slower I/O. The Samsung drive you have is a good drive! Unlike many SSD’s today this is one of the few which supports the slower SATA I/O speeds as it will sense the I/O interface and match it.
Your 2009 MacBook Pro supports upto EL Captain. So You can’t install High Sierra on it. It requires 2010 Macbook or higher. https://support.apple.com/kb/sp765?local…
Hi Gents, So to no avail it doesn’t work. I’v tried to install El Capitan on the old SSD and it doesn’t finish and tell me it cant install it. It doesn’t even read the new SSD. I tried to use the bootable drive to install on the SSD instead and the SSD doesn’t show up as an option for the OSX to install on. : (((( Please help anyone. SO Frustrating.
SO I got it to work! Thank you again… however, not the track pad button doesnt work. It was working before I opened it up. I can move qaround but I cant seem to press on anything. What could this be????
