Sorted - Recovery mode.
Hello all,
Been having some fun and games installing a SSD into my mid-2012 MBP of late, and things have now finally come to a head....
A short recap:
1.) Cloned HDD onto SSD with CCC;
2.) Installed SSD into optibay;
3.) Rebooted into SSD - and things simply weren't stable.
4.) Switched HDD and SSD - given a variety of forums that suggested the 2012 sometimes has issues with the SSD in the optibay.
5.) All appeared to be golden - barring the rather bizarre fact that my date and time remained out of synch - which I overrode manually.
6.) Formatted HDD, moved media over - setup iTunes; iMovie and iPhoto libraries, all relatively easy and fuss free.
As it stands - Mac still takes as long as what it used to, to boot up to the point where I enter my password, but after that - everything flies. Beach-balling has stopped - since Spotlight indexing is done. In short - everything looked perfect, with me being blown away by the speed of apps opening on the SSD!
So then I decide, one last time - to finally check everything, and ensure that those Permissions errors [after running Disk Utility] I kept getting when the SSD was in the optibay, were finally gone - I run Disk Utility again.
This time I decide to Disk Verify the SSD - it checked out perfectly when the SSD was in the Optibay.
And then I get this:
I CMD+R rebooted, and got to the Internet Restore option. Which suggests(?) that CCC never installed a Recovery Partition (which is odd, since I'm pretty sure it did?).
I cancelled, and switched on and off - ran Disk Utility again, and attached the screen grab above.
Questions:
1.) Do I let it do its thing, and connect to the internet, and download what it needs to?
2.) If so - does this allow me to simply boot into Disk Utility in Recovery Mode, to try and repair the disk - or is there a chance that it might wipe the SSD?
3.) In the absence of 1 & 2 - what are my options - particularly in light of the fact that, Disk Repair message aside, all appears to be running brilliantly?
I would really appreciate some tips here....
Hello all,
Been having some fun and games installing a SSD into my mid-2012 MBP of late, and things have now finally come to a head....
A short recap:
1.) Cloned HDD onto SSD with CCC;
2.) Installed SSD into optibay;
3.) Rebooted into SSD - and things simply weren't stable.
4.) Switched HDD and SSD - given a variety of forums that suggested the 2012 sometimes has issues with the SSD in the optibay.
5.) All appeared to be golden - barring the rather bizarre fact that my date and time remained out of synch - which I overrode manually.
6.) Formatted HDD, moved media over - setup iTunes; iMovie and iPhoto libraries, all relatively easy and fuss free.
As it stands - Mac still takes as long as what it used to, to boot up to the point where I enter my password, but after that - everything flies. Beach-balling has stopped - since Spotlight indexing is done. In short - everything looked perfect, with me being blown away by the speed of apps opening on the SSD!
So then I decide, one last time - to finally check everything, and ensure that those Permissions errors [after running Disk Utility] I kept getting when the SSD was in the optibay, were finally gone - I run Disk Utility again.
This time I decide to Disk Verify the SSD - it checked out perfectly when the SSD was in the Optibay.
And then I get this:
I CMD+R rebooted, and got to the Internet Restore option. Which suggests(?) that CCC never installed a Recovery Partition (which is odd, since I'm pretty sure it did?).
I cancelled, and switched on and off - ran Disk Utility again, and attached the screen grab above.
Questions:
1.) Do I let it do its thing, and connect to the internet, and download what it needs to?
2.) If so - does this allow me to simply boot into Disk Utility in Recovery Mode, to try and repair the disk - or is there a chance that it might wipe the SSD?
3.) In the absence of 1 & 2 - what are my options - particularly in light of the fact that, Disk Repair message aside, all appears to be running brilliantly?
I would really appreciate some tips here....
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