#SOLID STATE DRIVE MACBOOK PRO MID 2010 INSTALL#
#SOLID STATE DRIVE MACBOOK PRO MID 2010 UPGRADE#

MacBook and MacBook Pro (Non-Retina) SSD Upgrade Bundle. MacBook Pro 13' Unibody Mid 2010 Hard Drive Replacement. Not natively supported but can work if you don't mind a little work. Replace or upgrade the hard drive on your MacBook Pro 13' Unibody Mid 2010. Tl dr: the WD black 2 is a SSD & HD in one nice package. Used some commands to make the paritions into a Fusion drive. Ran Disk Utility and paritioned the new drive as 120.03 GB and the rest as the other parition. Installer ran with no problem, the drive was unlocked. 2.66GHz MacBook Pro (MC373LL/A) Enclosure: Precision aluminum unibody: Processor: 2.4GHz Intel Core i5: 2.53GHz Intel Core i5: 2.

That should mark any bad blocks as unreadable if the hardware is functioning. Otherwise if the data is backed up I would try to repartition the drive and then erase it and set it to zero all data. So I installed Windows7 via Bootcamp onto the original drive and booted the MBP from W7 on the USB enclosure after installing the new WD drive onto the SATA port in the MBP. You can try Disk Warrior or some other disk utility.

I tried putting the drive in a SATA enclosure and mounting it via USB in VirtualBox but the installer is too smart and really wants the drive on the SATA bus. Clone Kit to make a whole copy of your old hard drive to the new hard drive. I over thought things and tried not to run the Windows only app to unlock it (why WD did this I don't know it's kind of a dick move). It turns out that the 1 TB drive is locked out unless you run the WD Installer app. WD says the drive is not compatible with a Mac but I did some research before buying it.

#SOLID STATE DRIVE MACBOOK PRO MID 2010 INSTALL#

It also looks cool (not that you can see it much after install but shut up it's cool!). It has a 1TB drive AND a 120 GB SSD sandwiched on top. My 2010 MBP was starting to be a little fussy when the size got down to less than 10 GB free on the drive (an issue unto itself ). 480GB 2.5' SSD Solid State Drive for Apple MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2009) (17-inch, Mid 2010) (15-inch, Mid 2010) (13-inch, Mid 2010) 56 65 99 Get it as soon as Wed, Aug 18 FREE Shipping by Amazon Only 5 left in stock - order soon.

Solid state drive macbook pro mid 2010