macbook pro not recognizing 2nd hdd in optical drive caddy: Any ideas?
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I had the same problem. I have late 2011 MBP. My SSD was recognized but not HDD. I had problems reading/writing/erasing/partitioning the SSD in the optical bay with Disk utility but when I tried with Ipartition it would erase and make partitions in it. I was running OSX 10.7.4. As I was not able to read/ write so I was not able to boot from SSD/HD from the optical bay. I returned the caddy. I am looking for alternatives.
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This is an enclosure only. You must checkConnections for your hard drive SATA, ATA, IDE?Does you Mac Support USB 2.0?Once you determine these things then it should work
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I have two DVD drives hooked up to my Mac. I can't imagine that Macbook won't allow one connected even though it has a built in. My MacBook is 4 years old & it works fine with two different DVD drives I own. Neither are made by Apple.
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This is basically what I did, but I just put my SSD directly into my MBP, did a clean install of Mavericks, and moved over my desired files. It had been a while since I did a clean install, so I preferred to do it this way versus a clone. Now the HDD can be an external drive.
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Yes. This caddy replaces your cd drive in your MacBook Pro. There are many YouTube videos that can also guide you with how to install it.
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The drive itself uses a SATA connector, and shows up in Windows as a standard cd-rom drive. I didn't have to load any specific drivers, it uses the generic one supplied with Windows 7. It will probably be seen my Mac OS X, but I have no idea whether or not the OS or apps would let it read Blu-Ray content.
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Just got one and it works great, but no, it doesn't show up in Mac OS X as a drive. I'm using 10.4.6 and can't see it in the finder, disk utility, or in /Volumes/. Bummer.
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Yes and you will have to set the pins with a jumper for recognition of a second drive and plug it into the IDE cable as the second, you might have to unplug something. then copy the drive *.* and you've duplicated it.
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Open the back case. Look at the current drive label. Do a search of Amazon, using that number. If this product pops up, then yes. However, as in my review, the DVD drive case may not be an exact match; thus necessitating a delicate transplant of DVD covers, before insertion into the Macbook Pro.
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Hi to the best of my knowledge an experience on a Windows platform it shows as 2 separate drives. On the Mac os it shows as 1 drive.
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Hey partner,Gene gives some good advise.Also, make sure your optical bay drive is a 12.7mm height.It could be a 9.5mm height and there are HDD caddies for the 9.5mm drive bays.One other thing to consider is the height of your HDD itself.There are several different heights of HDDs - 5mm (very recent); 7mm (mostly for SSDs); 9.5mm; and 12.5mm (usually for larger capacity drive - 750GB+).Depending on your HDD height and the caddy height, it may or may not fit in the HDD caddy.Hope this helps.Kevin
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Sorry, no idea. Stopped using Macs about 15 years ago. But afaik, no, its a standard hard drive with no other special pieces.
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What he's asking for is to hook up the drive and look at the device list where it will list out the model of the drive inside the enclosure. On a Mac, check Apple menu -> About this Mac -> More Info... -> System report -> Storage -> look under "Physical Drive". On Windows, probably in the Device Manager somewhere.
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It did for me. Just sometimes when u restart your computer it didn't recognize the drive. I had to unplug it then re plug it. But I have a Mac so. Maybe that's why??
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Yes. I installed one. There's a slot to add a second HDD but it would just put SSD in it.
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It's not so hard to remove the drive as Dante suggests. However, inerting the blade or screwdriver here and there will mark the case enough to prevent returns. Once inside the base, it can be removed and that allows you to crack the main case. Not much chance of getting it back unmarked though. Then you get the drive out. it is encased in a tin box. The rubber "feet" are actually screws. Remove them and you can probably get the drive out with the tinwork intact. Dunno. I had gone too far at that stage. Anyway, the drive is now running as an SATA drive in my mac, and since the box is USB 2, who cares if it does not work any more? Overall, the drive is probably less bought at a discount store than one bought at trade price as a bare drive. The difference is the warranty. The markings on the drive say clearly it is an OEM drive and has to be returned to the OEMer. HTH
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Hi John - yes. All drive caddies are present. I would likely put 1TB (or 2TB if I have any spare) drives (wiped clean) on each one. Pete