late 2012 mac mini unibody ssd upgrade issues (keeps uninitializing)
crwdns2934249:0crwdne2934249:0:
Hey guys,
So I have a late 2012 Mac Mini it has a 1TB HDD (what it came with). I purchased a 500GB Samsung SSD (870 EVO) to switch the HDD with.
I cloned the HDD onto the SSD using CC Cloner. Then i took out the HDD and put in the SSD. On boot a circle with a diagonal popped up then it booted up fine. I tested the system and it seemed to work fine so I shut it down. I then powered it on and a folder with a question mark popped up and it did not boot. So I booted into recovery mode and went to disk utility. I then noticed that disk utility said the drive was uninitialized. So I tried initializing it by using first aid then erasing it etc. but it kept failing.
I then took out the SSD and put back in the HDD and booted up the pc and it booted fine. I then attached the SSD externally and initialized it using disk utility to MacOS Extended Journaled (The default settings). Then I put back the SSD in the Mac and did a fresh install of MacOS via recovery mode. MacOS Catalina was installed and i went through the setup and everything went well. I tested the system and everything was working excellent better than the HDD. So I said I will try and reboot the pc to see if I get the same issue, and unfortunately when I clicked restart the pc shut off and on boot the folder with the question mark popped up and it never came on again.
I would greatly appreciate any assistance.
Thank you !
late 2012 mac mini unibody ssd upgrade issues (keeps uninitializing)
crwdns2934249:0crwdne2934249:0:
Hey guys,
So I have a late 2012 Mac Mini it has a 1TB HDD (what it came with). I purchased a 500GB Samsung SSD (870 EVO) to switch the HDD with.
I cloned the HDD onto the SSD using CC Cloner. Then i took out the HDD and put in the SSD. On boot a circle with a diagonal popped up then it booted up fine. I tested the system and it seemed to work fine so I shut it down. I then powered it on and a folder with a question mark popped up and it did not boot. So I booted into recovery mode and went to disk utility. I then noticed that disk utility said the drive was uninitialized. So I tried initializing it by using first aid then erasing it etc. but it kept failing.
I then took out the SSD and put back in the HDD and booted up the pc and it booted fine. I then attached the SSD externally and initialized it using disk utility to MacOS Extended Journaled (The default settings). Then I put back the SSD in the Mac and did a fresh install of MacOS via recovery mode. MacOS Catalina was installed and i went through the setup and everything went well. I tested the system and everything was working excellent better than the HDD. So I said I will try and reboot the pc to see if I get the same issue, and unfortunately when I clicked restart the pc shut off and on boot the folder with the question mark popped up and it never came on again.
I would greatly appreciate any assistance.
Thank you !
late 2012 mac mini unibody ssd upgrade issues (keeps uninitializing)
crwdns2934249:0crwdne2934249:0:
Hey guys,
So I have a late 2012 Mac Mini it has a 1TB HDD (what it came with). I purchased a 500GB Samsung SSD (870 EVO) to switch the HDD with.
I cloned the HDD onto the SSD using CC Cloner. Then i took out the HDD and put in the SSD. On boot a circle with a diagonal popped up then it booted up fine. I tested the system and it seemed to work fine so I shut it down. I then powered it on and a folder with a question mark popped up and it did not boot. So I booted into recovery mode and went to disk utility. I then noticed that disk utility said the drive was uninitialized. So I tried initializing it by using first aid then erasing it etc. but it kept failing.
I then took out the SSD and put back in the HDD and booted up the pc and it booted fine. I then attached the SSD externally and initialized it using disk utility to MacOS Extended Journaled (The default settings). Then I put back the SSD in the Mac and did a fresh install of MacOS via recovery mode. MacOS Catalina was installed and i went through the setup and everything went well. I tested the system and everything was working excellent better than the HDD. So I said I will try and reboot the pc to see if I get the same issue, and unfortunately when I clicked restart the pc shut off and on boot the folder with the question mark popped up and it never came on again.
I would greatly appreciate any assistance.
Thank you !