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Ssd brackets for mac pro6/7/2023 ![]() I am on BT Business Infinity for Business fibre to the cabinet internet and apparently there was a problem with the particular router causing this exact problem when trying to download Mountain Lion, so at 11pm on a Friday evening I called BT Business tech support and spoke to an engineer who instantly knew about the problem and arranged for a new hub to be sent out to me. After some more internet research the solution appeared to be change my router. It would start to download the 4.4GB file but it would stop when it got to 142MB. Now I was ready to install Mountain Lion, so I went onto the App Store and bought Mountain Lion and then found I couldn’t download it, or at least not all of it. Then when I rebooted the Mac Pro there was the SSD drive on the Desktop. So I selected the Disk Utility from the Restore mode options and was able to format the SSD drive without problems. In this ‘Restore’ mode apparently the Mac OS isn’t actually loaded which meant that whatever in the OS prevented Disk Utility from erasing the drive, wasn’t running. ![]() The solution was to boot the Mac Pro into Restore mode by holding down the Command & R buttons as the Mac Pro started up. This took a little bit of research but I found a post that related to a Vertex drive where someone had had a similar problem and they had a solution. ![]() When I booted the the Mac up the OS advised me that there was a drive that hadn’t been initialised and once I opened Disk Utility I selected Erase drive and ran into my first problem, Disk Utility wouldn’t Erase it, it came back with an error that said it couldn’t “open the drive” error. SSD drive plugged into the second sata socket
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