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Replaced Optical Drive with 1TB HD, mac continually not respondin.WTD?

Hi, hi have a unibody macbook pro late 2011 (model nomber A1286). i recently replaced the optical bay with a 1TB hard disk. I also upgraded to maveriks, and my computer keep not responding (when i use the finder, disk utility etc.) and also sometimes doesn't recognize the hard disk installed instead of the optical drive.

I used your guide (which is excellent BTW), but when i reached step 8, i stripped one of the screws and had to cut the plastic/metal in order to diconnect the bluetooth.

(i didn't cut any of the cables...

Can you help me figure out how to fix this problem?

Should i downgrade to Mac Mountain Lion OS X?

Thanks in advance,

Michael

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Can you give us the make & model of the HD you put in.

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HI Dan, thanks for your help.

The HD Model is "Seagate Momentus Laptop HDD 1 TB SATA-300"

http://www.crucial.com/ProductDisplay?di...

Is this model compatible?

I used the link you provided, and it seems my EFI firmware is up to date.

Will try your suggestion (i have a USB case).

Thanks again

Michael

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Just saw that my HD is 6Gb/s, can i do anything to make it work?

Also, i'd really appreciate it if you can tell me which HD model is fully compatible in the optical bay..

Thank you

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Unless the drive has a means to slow the I/O speed to SATA II (3 Gb/s) there is no other possible solution here within the optical drive location internally.

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Oh, i see. Does that it mean no other HD would be compatible?

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I would start by making sure I had the latest EFI firmware installed on the system. Follow this Apple TN: EFI & SMC firmware updates for Intel-based Macs.

Next I would take this drive out of the system and install it into a FireWire or USB case or use a SATA to USB converter cable to test & prep the drive.

If the drive was working at this point and still failed when I installed the drive again I would check the specs of the drive as the SATA I/O speed of this drive maybe too fast for the system via the optical drive I/O port. Review this note OWC has for their carrier: Optical to SATA Drive Converter Bracket Solution.

Here's the note they have:

"Testing has demonstrated that Apple factory hardware does not reliably support a 6G (6Gb/s) Solid State Drive or Hard Disk Drive in the optical bay of 2011 MacBook Pros (ModeI ID8,1; 8,2; 8,3)"

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You may want to consider returning this drive and buy instead a larger drive to replace your primary drive. But instead of a HD I would go with a SSHD hybrid drive which will give you better performance. Seagate makes a good one. We have moved off of dual drive setups and have gone this way as a better solution for us (better battery life & more reliable).

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