solid state drive for macbook pro mid 2009 samsung

I was on EFI 1.7 and trying to revert to 1.6 didn't seem like the way to go. I upgraded to Yosemite and it got a bit better, working smoothly for 10-20 minutes or so after start-up before starting to beach ball (heat issue?), but it was still pretty unusable for anything serious. With the OS version I was running (I think it was Mountain Lion) it was very bad, beachballing constantly. I had this problem with my mid-2009 MBP after upgrading to a Crucial 500GB SSD. Thanks to SmAcDuff for pointing out the solution to the Image scan error.

After that, everything should go smoothly. The source image needs to be imagescanned before it can be restored.'Ĭlick on the image file in the list on the left and then click on Image in the menu and then on Scan Image for Restore. Sit, relax, and wait for the process to be done.ĮND: you have now downgraded to EFI firmware 1.6Ĭould not find any scan information. Once this is selected the Apple logo will come up and a dark gray bar will start to move right under it. Select the bootable USB drive (yellow orangish color), Use Arrows to navigate and Enter button to select. In my case I had three pop up, my Bootcamp partition my main Mac harddrive, and the BOOTABLE USB drive I just made.

Boot up the machine while its booting up, before the apple icon pops up, press and hold the option button until your drives/partitions pop up.

Once this is done, unplug and replug the usb drive, shut down the machine.

no need to have the erase destination box checked/ticked.

In the Destination box, drag and drop the newly formatted Volume from step 4/5.

dmg downloaded in step 1, you can either brose it or drag and drop it in the source bow.

In this panel you will see two white input boxes, in source you will browse and select the.

Click on the newly formatted drive Volume, then click on the tab restore (same row as erase).

REformat this USB drive in Mac OSX HFS+ Journaled in disk utility.

The following is my take on the Russian instructions, which I tested and confirmed they worked. The following has someone else's instructions but I updated link to a non-broken one for the firmware file. (you may not be able to upgrade to Mountain Lion however. Google: 'Macbook Pro 2009 EFI firmware update 1.7.'ĭowngrade the motherboard firmware back to EFI 1.6. This is a common know issue that Apple has not acknowledged.

Solid state drive for macbook pro mid 2009 samsung