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1. #2009 macbook pro 13 hard drive how to#
2. #2009 macbook pro 13 hard drive mac osx#
3. #2009 macbook pro 13 hard drive update#
4. #2009 macbook pro 13 hard drive upgrade#

#2009 macbook pro 13 hard drive update#

I did my best to interpret them to make a bootable USB drive with the firmware update image, but it's a DOS-based utility and didn't show signs of actually doing something, no text printed on the screen, etc.

#2009 macbook pro 13 hard drive how to#

The Crucial website has a link for how to do this on a mac, but the supposed mac instructions also seem oriented towards PC users. Finally, I tried swapping out the Crucial for a Samsung 850 EVO 1TB SSD and I'm happy to report-no more beachballs! It's working great!įor what it's worth, I did make an unsuccessful attempt at updating the firmware on the Crucial before giving up on it. I was on EFI 1.7 and trying to revert to 1.6 didn't seem like the way to go. I upgraded to Yosemite and it got a bit better, working smoothly for 10-20 minutes or so after start-up before starting to beach ball (heat issue?), but it was still pretty unusable for anything serious.

Written By: Walter Galan INTRODUCTION When replacing your hard drive, you must transfer the four locating pins (removed with a T6 screwdriver) from the old hard drive to the new one. With the OS version I was running (I think it was Mountain Lion) it was very bad, beachballing constantly. MacBook Pro 13' Unibody Mid 2009 Hard Drive Replacement Replace the hard drive in your MacBook Pro 13' Unibody Mid 2009. I had this problem with my mid-2009 MBP after upgrading to a Crucial 500GB SSD. Thanks to SmAcDuff for pointing out the solution to the Image scan error. After that, everything should go smoothly. The source image needs to be imagescanned before it can be restored."Ĭlick on the image file in the list on the left and then click on Image in the menu and then on Scan Image for Restore. Sit, relax, and wait for the process to be done.ĮND: you have now downgraded to EFI firmware 1.6Ĭould not find any scan information.

Once this is selected the Apple logo will come up and a dark gray bar will start to move right under it. Select the bootable USB drive (yellow orangish color), Use Arrows to navigate and Enter button to select. In my case I had three pop up, my Bootcamp partition my main Mac harddrive, and the BOOTABLE USB drive I just made.

#2009 macbook pro 13 hard drive mac osx#

REformat this USB drive in Mac OSX HFS+ Journaled in disk utility.The following is my take on the Russian instructions, which I tested and confirmed they worked. The following has someone else's instructions but I updated link to a non-broken one for the firmware file.

#2009 macbook pro 13 hard drive upgrade#

(you may not be able to upgrade to Mountain Lion however. Google: "Macbook Pro 2009 EFI firmware update 1.7."ĭowngrade the motherboard firmware back to EFI 1.6. I don't want to be the guy in a year who has to 'admit' to buying the 13" Macbook Pro.This is a common know issue that Apple has not acknowledged. I know the specs weren't that spectacular compared to the old white macbook, but they were enough to make me decide it was worth the extra money - if I were buying now, I'm not so sure that'd be the case.ĭon't get me wrong, I still think that for £899 the 13" Macbook Pro is a good notebook, but this has soured my 'First Apple' experience a little. My point is why bring out a new 'pro' model, when, within 120 days(!) it's going to be a 'pretty' version of the base model? I understand where you're coming from, and I know that this is another one of those 'Apple updated just after I bought' threads - and I'm VERY happy with my mac.īut, I'm a little cynical as to why Apple bought out the macbook pro 13, when they knew that four months later, they were going to be bringing out this new macbook? I know technology moves fast nowadays and what you can get now will be outclassed in a year's time I understand this.