Hi There,
I have just got my hands on a RunCore Pro IV Sata II 2.5" 256GB SSD for Mac (RCP-IV-SA2556-C). I have a 13" White MacBook from circa Sept 2008. This MacBook is running Snow Leopard with all the latest updates applied. I also have a Boot Camp partition running Windows 7 Professional. Everything was running fine and dandy before trying to put the SSD into the laptop.
I connected the SSD to the MacBook with the provided USB cables/Caddy, under Mac OS X, and ran the included Carbon Copy disk cloning software. All went well and was able to successfully test the clone on the SSD by booting from the USB connected disk. Everything looked great.
I then opened up the MacBook and removed my existing 7200rpm HDD and installed the RunCore SSD. I booted up the MacBook off the new SSD and everything looked great. SUPER fast!
I then loaded up the Boot Camp Disk Partition helper tool and partitioned the SSD with an approx 140GB Boot Camp partition and a 98GB Mac OS X partition. It then prompted me to insert a Windows XP disk and then it restarted.
As I am wanting to restore my Windows 7 installation from my last backup (Shadow Protect) I popped in my Shadow Protect restore boot CD and connected up my external USB drive that has the last Windows 7 backup on it. I know that this works because I have done it before multiple times - for multiple OS's (XP, Vista & Win 7).
This is where the problem starts... no matter what bootable disk I put in the MacBook DVD drive - either CD or DVD -and no matter how I select to boot off it - Boot Camp tool, Startup Disk Selection, Holding down the C key when powering on the machine, or pressing the Option key - the MacBook will NOT boot from the CD/DVD. I can see the disk identified correctly in the drive when I look in the Startup Disk tool in Mac OS X, and also when I press the Option key at power on. But when I select it, the drive whizzes for a short while and then just seems to hang the system with a grey screen. I've tried Windows XP install disks - SP2, SP3, Windows Vista Ultimate Disk, Windows 7 Ultimate and Pro, as well as 2 different shadow protect boot disks. I even downloaded the latest Shadow Protect Boot Image and burnt a fresh copy thinking mine might be corrupted.
The strange thing though, is if I put in the Mac OS X Snow Leopard install DVD, it boots up perfectly fine!! Go Figure!
The firmware version on the SSD is the latest 1916 - direct from the factory. I haven't rev'd it myself.
Is anyone able to help me with this issue?
thanks
Stuart
I have just got my hands on a RunCore Pro IV Sata II 2.5" 256GB SSD for Mac (RCP-IV-SA2556-C). I have a 13" White MacBook from circa Sept 2008. This MacBook is running Snow Leopard with all the latest updates applied. I also have a Boot Camp partition running Windows 7 Professional. Everything was running fine and dandy before trying to put the SSD into the laptop.
I connected the SSD to the MacBook with the provided USB cables/Caddy, under Mac OS X, and ran the included Carbon Copy disk cloning software. All went well and was able to successfully test the clone on the SSD by booting from the USB connected disk. Everything looked great.
I then opened up the MacBook and removed my existing 7200rpm HDD and installed the RunCore SSD. I booted up the MacBook off the new SSD and everything looked great. SUPER fast!
I then loaded up the Boot Camp Disk Partition helper tool and partitioned the SSD with an approx 140GB Boot Camp partition and a 98GB Mac OS X partition. It then prompted me to insert a Windows XP disk and then it restarted.
As I am wanting to restore my Windows 7 installation from my last backup (Shadow Protect) I popped in my Shadow Protect restore boot CD and connected up my external USB drive that has the last Windows 7 backup on it. I know that this works because I have done it before multiple times - for multiple OS's (XP, Vista & Win 7).
This is where the problem starts... no matter what bootable disk I put in the MacBook DVD drive - either CD or DVD -and no matter how I select to boot off it - Boot Camp tool, Startup Disk Selection, Holding down the C key when powering on the machine, or pressing the Option key - the MacBook will NOT boot from the CD/DVD. I can see the disk identified correctly in the drive when I look in the Startup Disk tool in Mac OS X, and also when I press the Option key at power on. But when I select it, the drive whizzes for a short while and then just seems to hang the system with a grey screen. I've tried Windows XP install disks - SP2, SP3, Windows Vista Ultimate Disk, Windows 7 Ultimate and Pro, as well as 2 different shadow protect boot disks. I even downloaded the latest Shadow Protect Boot Image and burnt a fresh copy thinking mine might be corrupted.
The strange thing though, is if I put in the Mac OS X Snow Leopard install DVD, it boots up perfectly fine!! Go Figure!
The firmware version on the SSD is the latest 1916 - direct from the factory. I haven't rev'd it myself.
Is anyone able to help me with this issue?
thanks
Stuart
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