Cheers Michael. Yes know about Partition GUID extended journaled with
regard to formatting etc and ultimately will also be bootcamping this as I
do with all Macs. BTW, I see you now can't purchase Windows 7 Retail or,
product keys for that so this could b interesting. Thanks for the memory
stick tip though. Downloaded Mavericks as don't think Pro Tools 10.4 will
install on Yousemity. There's a trick you can do by altering the
SystemVersion.plist file that full's the Pro Tools installer but not
personally managed to get that to work yet. As for El Capitan, not going
anywhere near that. Just want to get the system up and running and the Mac
partition backed up with Carbon Copy Cloner. Now using Paragon Boot Camp
Backup to backup my bootcamp partition rather than Winclone. The great
thing is that when restoring my Bootcamp partition with this, my Sound Forge
8 authorisation doesn't get hosed but Winclone couldn't restore that
properly or CD Architect so I had to reinstall both as I got an error when
trying to open them. Also, Paragon Boot Camp does secttor by sector backup
and you can do incrimental backups with it although not tried that yet.
Paragon Boot Camp Backup is currently free but would spring some cache for
it if I had to as it works really well. Note: El Capitan doesn't work with
Paragon Boot Camp Backup yet so that's yet another reason not to upgrade the
OS. Unfortunately my Jaws authorisation gets hosed if I use any of the
above-mentioned software so think I shall move to getting a dongle for Jaws
ASAP.
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Michael Ciarciello
Sent: 17 February 2016 11:38
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Question For Sean Cummins, DJX, Or Anyone else, Which
SSD Drive Should I Put in A Mid 2012 15 Inch Mac Book Pro
Hi Phil when I was considering upgrading my hard drive to a solid state mid
2011 model with 2.2 quad core at an i7 processor, I was recommended here in
Montreal by Microbytes to go with the kingston hard drive at 480GB.
Currently I have an
: APPLE SSD SM0512G solid state drive installed on my new MacBook pro
2015.The kingston will be fine though, as long as you have it formatted
under the following:
Partition GUID extended journaled.
Hope this helps.
P.S. make sure you have a memory stick with at least 8 GB formatted under
the same specs mentioned above, as you will need to install the OS X using
this device whilst booting up in the recovery mode.Hope this helps.
On Feb 17, 2016, at 4:28 AM, Phil Muir <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi all!
Managed to get hold of a mid 2012 15 inch Mac Book Pro 2.7 GHz quad core.
Already ordered 16 GB of Kingston RAM for it and a black 7200 Western
Digital hard drive which unusually ships with a 5 year warranty. Now
wondering if I should have gone solid state instead but not too sure which
drive to go for? I know there were issues with read write cycles but I also
know that a lot of that has been sorted out. Any feedback is greatly
appreciated!
Regards, Phil Muir
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