Hi there,
I am a PC user trying to help out a friend with their quest to swap the current HDD in their 2010 Macbook Pro with a 250gb Samsung Evo SSD and am a bit out of my depth.
We get stuck at the first hurdle as plugging in the SSD to two USB ports (supposedly one for data, one for power) on the MBP doesn't exactly work: The enclosure LED holds red for around 2 seconds then goes out and that's it - it doesn't prompt anything on the laptop and does not show in Disk Utility.
I have tried the drive, using the same enclosure in my Win 7 Desktop and it is recognized with no trouble at all.
I'm not really sure what to try next, I had toyed with the idea that the enclosure might not be getting enough power but is that an issue with SSDs?
If anyone could help with suggestions that would be really greatly appreciated, thanks for your time,
Scott
I am a PC user trying to help out a friend with their quest to swap the current HDD in their 2010 Macbook Pro with a 250gb Samsung Evo SSD and am a bit out of my depth.
We get stuck at the first hurdle as plugging in the SSD to two USB ports (supposedly one for data, one for power) on the MBP doesn't exactly work: The enclosure LED holds red for around 2 seconds then goes out and that's it - it doesn't prompt anything on the laptop and does not show in Disk Utility.
I have tried the drive, using the same enclosure in my Win 7 Desktop and it is recognized with no trouble at all.
I'm not really sure what to try next, I had toyed with the idea that the enclosure might not be getting enough power but is that an issue with SSDs?
If anyone could help with suggestions that would be really greatly appreciated, thanks for your time,
Scott