I have a white unibody macbook (5,2)
I recently bought a usb 3 to sata connector and a Samsung 850 evo SSD. Both the SSD and my old HDD are running Mountain Lion, If that matters.
I'm having the following problem:
The ssd works fine when used internally, but its not detectable when connected through the cable. The cable works just fine. I plugged in my old hard drive through the cable (while the Macbook was running off the SSD) and was able to access the contents without any problem. There was even a Time Machine popup asking me if I wanna use this as my backup disk. No such thing happened when I had connected the SSD.
So I turned to my windows 10 laptop for help. When the HDD is connected (through cable), It doesn't show up under "This PC" but disk management shows all its partitions. But when I connect the SSD (through cable), the disk management is not able to initialize the SSD. Shows the error "the disk is not ready". I used "diskpart" in comand prompt. "List disk" shows that the disk is online, but its size is 0gb. Upon using the command 'convert gpt' it shows the error "the device is not ready". List Disk correctly shows the size of the HDD.
How can I troubleshoot this? I wanna use the SSD as external SSD so its important that it works with the cable.
here are the images for what disk management and list disk shows: http://imgur.com/a/IkhpR
The SSD has no data, so if I have to format it or something, thats completely fine by me.
I recently bought a usb 3 to sata connector and a Samsung 850 evo SSD. Both the SSD and my old HDD are running Mountain Lion, If that matters.
I'm having the following problem:
The ssd works fine when used internally, but its not detectable when connected through the cable. The cable works just fine. I plugged in my old hard drive through the cable (while the Macbook was running off the SSD) and was able to access the contents without any problem. There was even a Time Machine popup asking me if I wanna use this as my backup disk. No such thing happened when I had connected the SSD.
So I turned to my windows 10 laptop for help. When the HDD is connected (through cable), It doesn't show up under "This PC" but disk management shows all its partitions. But when I connect the SSD (through cable), the disk management is not able to initialize the SSD. Shows the error "the disk is not ready". I used "diskpart" in comand prompt. "List disk" shows that the disk is online, but its size is 0gb. Upon using the command 'convert gpt' it shows the error "the device is not ready". List Disk correctly shows the size of the HDD.
How can I troubleshoot this? I wanna use the SSD as external SSD so its important that it works with the cable.
here are the images for what disk management and list disk shows: http://imgur.com/a/IkhpR
The SSD has no data, so if I have to format it or something, thats completely fine by me.
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