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  Hello world.  So I just got the macbook pro 2012 and starts to do-it-yourself work last night.  I took out the optical drive, transferred the existing location HARD disk (w / caddy) and installed an SSD in its place.  Then I cloned the SSD HARD drive.  No problems so far.

  When I went to change the boot drive startup disk preferences is where I ran into a problem.  My original HARD drive is the only projection.  I had the problem in choosing the boot drive during the reboot (the SSD will appear in this menu) and makes it the default value it.  SSD works very well and is now my main boot drive.  However, I still would like to show in startup disk preferences.  Is it possible to do (preferably without erasing the SSD)?

  Thank you!

  Relevant info - I'm running El Capitan and I used SuperDuper! to clone the HARD disk.

  OK, can I have found the problem.  Map of partition of the SSD has been MBR, no GUID.  I deleted it, reformatted and I am re-cloning it now.  I'll post the result (I hope that as a confirmed for another solution which meets with this).

• MacBook pro cannot play all the games.

  MacBook pro cannot play any games.when I start the mac game close itself. If mac works perfectly.

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• I have a blue screen I can't start and I don't have a boot disk I can't start in safe or any type of mode

  I have a blue screen I can't start and I don't have a boot disk I can't start in safe or any type of mode

  ccorr,
  Thanks for posting on the Microsoft answers Forum.  You will need to provide additional information.

  What version of Windows and service pack level are you?
  Do you get any error messages?
  If something has changed on your system prior to this issue (hardware or software)?
  What "Startup disk" do you have?  It is the manufacturer of PC?

  Here are a few things to try:
  The first thing to do is to boot your system and start pressing F8 as soon as it starts booting.  You will get the Windows startup options screen.  Select "Disable automatic restart in the event of system failure" and let it restart.  When it starts, it can now stop with an error screen and give an error message and code.

  Disconnect all external devices (printers, USB Hub, drives external, etc.) and try to start.

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• MacBook pro cannot detect ANY hard disk

  Greetings,

  I have a 13 macbook pro (mid-2012 a1278) inches and when he start shows the folder with the question mark. I think that bad hard drive, so I get a new drive, drop it in and then try to start a recovery from the internet.

  After connecting to the internet and download the recovery image, I load disk utility, and he does not see the new hard drive. Am I a bad disc, I wonder?

  So I drop the old drive in a hard disk enclosure and connect to an another macbook, and that is, I can see all the files. I put the new drive in the caddy and it can detect and partition/format the new drive.

  Thus, the macbook can not see any hard drive.

  This seems to be functional in the case, as I can load the internet recovery image and exploit all the basic functions (Restore disk, time machine, access to the network, keyboard and mouse, etc.)

  It will not just to see the hard drive.

  I've never had a hard disk controller macbook to go ahead without him taking the rest of the macbook with her. Am I missing something?

  Your MBP may very well have a bad hard drive cable.

• MacBook Pro A1278 starts with black or white screen

  Please help, my 13 "Macbook Pro, circa 2011 displays a white screen briefly and make sound boots, then goes to a white screen.  I tried to reset the PRAM a couple of times, no luck, reset SMC strikes did not help.

  Can anyone offer additional troubleshooting steps?

  Thank you.

  Please take each of these steps that you have not already tried it. Some of them are not applicable to your model or your situation. Stop when the problem is resolved.

  To restart a computer is not responding, press and hold the power button for a few seconds until the unit turns off, then release, wait a few seconds and press again briefly.

  Step 1

  The first step to respond to a startup failure is to secure data. If you want to keep the contents of the boot drive and you have not already at least a current backup, you should try to back up now, before we do anything else. It may or may not be possible. If you don't care the data changed since the last backup, you can skip this step.

  There are several ways to back up a Mac that is unable to boot. You need an external hard drive to store backup data.

  a. starting the partition recovery or an hour Local Machine backup volume (button option key at startup). When the OS X Utilities appears, launch disk utility and follow the instructions in this support articleto the title of the "Instructions for the backup on an external hard drive via disk utility". The article refers to the start of a DVD, but the recovery mode procedure is the same. You don't need a DVD if you use OS X 10.7 or higher.

  (b) If step 1 fails due to disk errors, and no other Mac is available, then you may be able to save some of your files by copying them in the Finder. If you already have an external hard drive with OS X installed, the start of it. Otherwise, if you have access to the Internet, follow the instructions on this page to prepare the external hard drive and install OS X on it. You will use the installation program of recovery, rather than download it from the App Store.

  c. If you have access to a Mac, and it work and have both the non-working Mac FireWire ports or stroke, start the Mac non-working in target disk mode. Work Mac to copy the data to another drive. This technique will not work with USB, Ethernet, Wi - Fi or Bluetooth.

  d. If the internal drive of the non-working Mac is replaceable by the user, remove it and climb into a docking station that is pregnant or an external drive. Use another Mac to copy the data.

  Step 2

  If you have booted from an external drive, make sure that the internal boot volume is selected in the pane of the system preferences Startup disk.

  Start in safe mode. Note: If FileVault is enabled in OS X 10.9 or an earlier version, or if a firmware password is defined, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can not do this. If you do not see the words "Safe Boot" in the start screen, you did not start in safe mode. Ask for additional instructions.

  Safe mode is much slower to boot and run as normal, and some things don't work at all, including the networks without wire on some Macs.

  The login screen is displayed even if you normally connect automatically. You must know the password for the connection to connect. If you have forgotten the password, you will have to reset it before you begin.

  If the startup progress bar gets stuck for more than a few minutes, or the system stops automatically when the progress bar appears, the boot volume is corrupted and the player is probably defective. In this case, go to step 9. If you have another problem with the player, replace it immediately.

  If you can start and log in in safe mode, empty the trash and then open the window of info on the boot volume ("Macintosh HD", unless you have given it a different name.) Make sure you have at least 9 GB of space available, as shown in the window. If you do not, copy as many files as necessary on another volume (not another folder on the same volume) and delete the originals. Deletion is not complete until you empty the trash again. This, until the space is more than 9 GB. Then restart as usual (i.e., not in safe mode.)

  If the boot process hangs again, the problem is probably caused by third-party software you have installed. Ask for additional instructions.

  Step 3

  If the startup process stops at a gray screen together with a mobile cursor, then the logon dialog box may be active but not visible because of a bug. You may be able to connect by using the arrow keys or the cursor to select the password field and type your password as usual.

  Step 4

  Case of failure of step 3, the boot volume can be complete. If you saw previously implemented guard space drive is low, it is certainly the case. You might be able to start in safe mode , even if you cannot boot normally. Otherwise, boot from an external hard drive, or well technology for step 1b, 1 c or 1 d allows to mount the internal drive and delete some files. According to the documentation from Apple, you need at least 9 GB of free space on the boot (as shown in the Infolog) for normal operation volume.

  Step 5

  If a Mac desktop (without the built-in keyboard) crashes on a gray screen together with a mobile cursor, the keyboard may not be recognized. Hold down the button on the side of a wireless Apple keyboard to make it discoverable. If need be, replace or recharge the batteries. If you use a USB keyboard connected to a hub, connect it to a built-in port.

  Step 6

  Sometimes, a startup failure can be solved by resetting the NVRAM.

  Step 7

  If there is an integrated optical drive, a disk may be stuck in there. Follow these instructions to remove it.

  Step 8

  Press and hold the power button until the unit turns off. Disconnect all devices wired except those needed to start and remove all aftermarket expansion cards. Use another keyboard and/or mouse, if these devices are wired. If you can start now, one of the devices that you disconnected, or a combination of both, the origin of the problem. Discover that it is a process of elimination.

  Step 9

  Launch the utility disk in recovery mode (see step 1). Select the boot volume, and then run the repair disk. If problems are found, repeat until that clear. If disk utility reports that the volume is not repairable, the drive is defective and must be replaced. You can choose to tolerate such malfunction in the reader's life. In this case, delete the volume and restore it from a backup. If the same thing happens again, replace the drive immediately.

  It is one of the rare situations where you must also run repair permissions, ignoring the erroneous warnings, that it can produce. Look for the line "Permissions repair complete" at the end of the output. Then restart as usual.

  Step 10

  If the boot device is an aftermarket SSD, it may have an update and/or a forced "garbage collection". Instructions how to do this with a Crucial SSD of brand have been posted here. Some of these instructions may apply to other brands of SSDS, but you should check with the technical support of the provider.

  Step 11

  Reinstall the OS. If the Mac has upgraded an earlier version of Mac OS X, you need the Apple ID and password used to upgrade.

  Step 12

  Do as in step 11, but this time clear the disk utility boot volume before installing. The system should restart automatically in the installation wizard. Follow the prompts to transfer data from one Time Machine or another backup.

  Step 13

  This step applies only to models that have a battery logic-board ("PRAM"): all of the Mac Pro, MacBook with a removable main battery and a few others (models not updated). A flat battery logic-board may cause a boot failure. In general the failure will be preceded by the loss of the system and boot disk clock settings. Refer to the user manual for replacement instructions. You may need to take the machine to a provider of services to have to replace the battery.

  Step 14

  If you get this far, you probably deal a hardware failure. An appointment of 'Genius' to an Apple Store, or select another authorized service provider.

• MacBook pro 2011 - starts greenish screen not

  Hi all

  I wonder what is happening to my macbook pro.

  Product: macbook pro start 2011-2 GHz - 8 GB ram - running os 10.11.4

  symptoms: suddenly stopped last week when I was watching a movie. Note that the fans were noisy given that the weather was warm and the hot computer as well. Now it starts but won't go to the part of connection. It shows a greenish screen with weird block lines. Please see the pictures attached.

  Looks like it could be the graphics card.

  I tried to clear the NVRAM, boot in safe mode and reinstall in wifi, but that did not help

  

  I tried to get an appointment at the apple shop local, but the waiting time is just crazy...

  Thank you for your support.

  Charles

  Use the Installation of Snow Leopard original CD and see if you can access disk utility and run first aid on the HARD drive.

  If you need, ask.

  Ciao.

• El capitan will not open - full boot disk

  Hello

  My Macbook Pro 2015 will not open. I have El Capitan on it.

  The last time it was open, I was copying large files on it. Did not notice that the free space was not so. Thus, change some time to copy files, the screen freezes and I had to stop it by pressing the button of closing for a period of time.

  Now it wonder pass and then takes over to 100% and stay like that. I keep it like that for 1 and a half hour and still the same.

  I have fact/cheque:

  1 safe mode - does not work. I don't know why, and I'm wright.

  2 disk utility (cmd + R) - say that the mac player seems to be ok (first aid) and shows me zero free Ko. Think that's the reason why it does not start.

  3 terminal. Find my user >. Trash and delete the content thereof (rm - rf ~ /.) Trashes) and checked it was empty after. After restarting the same.

  4 El Capitan of loading of the external drive. Can't see hidden files (.) (Trash) even when I put the command in the terminal. I was able to remove the other files with this, which appeared on the external drive of the El capitan Trash and delete them from there to check the mac, 100 GB of free drive. Reboot and always the same time. Open Cmd + R-> disk utility again: zero free Ko. Why?

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• Problem full boot disk

  I was struck with the dreaded full disk boot error message. I have a hard disk of 500 GB solid state. Disk utility, I opened, and he said I had about 44 GB of free space. If this should not be sufficient?

  In any case, I deleted my Aperture libraries and disk utility now says I have about 56 GB of free space. So, I went about my business when I suddenly got the message startup disk is full again. I checked the disk utility and discovered that she had changed to 56 GB less than 1 GB.

  So I restarted my laptop, and it's the same thing. What is going on?

  I have a possible answer: I checked Activity Monitor and discovered that there are some very big 'process' which had to be closed by force.  It is a problem, I thought I had solved a long time ago.

  If have several websites that I have developed on my laptop. If I open a web page in a browser, and this web page is linked/included in a missing file, then the page starts blocking memory. The only warning is that my computer started acting sluggish. I then open the activity monitor and usually have to force to close a series of rogue process maybe half a dozen. But which never resulted in a startup disk full message.

  I know that a web page of thugs would use additional memory, while a boot disk error seems to indicate a physical lack of SPACE.

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  Stop the web server and see if the problem stops.

  Looks like your sites consume too much memory. In "physical memory" is exhausted the operating system written unused memory to disk - this is called "paging" or "Exchange on the disk. Obvoiusly which means disk space gets reserved for this "expanded memory". Finally, something must give.

  56 GB of free space is OK, unless you have a process that runs somehow out of control like this - something not at all with these sites or scripts. Personally, I prefer a bit more margin to maneuver, but 56 GB should be enough on a healthy system.

  You don't need to use disk utility to see the use of disk space. Open a Finder window and simply get the information on your disk (Go Menu > computer lists all storage connected).

  Expanded memory must be included in the activity to the 'used Swap' monitor if I remember correctly.

  You should not kill the process either - it's a sign that something is wrong and can lead to instability and data loss if they are used by large parts of the operating system.

  I think you should work on your test pages why begin to 'blocking of memory', perhaps runaway javascript or something in the real of the server, you could read the logs from the server if they are active to see if something is do a lot of queries etc.

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