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I installed an Intel X25-M SATA 80GB SSD in my Mac Pro.

  • Model Name: Mac Pro
  • Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
  • CPU: quad core Intel Xeon, 2.8 GHz, 12MB L2 Cache (per processor)
  • RAM: 6GB
  • Bus Speed: 1.6 GHz
  • Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B05
  • SMC Version (system): 1.25f4

I then used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my boot drive to the new SSD. This worked fine.

When I select the new SSD in System Preferences -> Startup Disk and restart I hear the chime and then the system will power down.

Holding down ALT (Option) allows me to select my original boot drive.

I used Disk Utility to repair the disk, but with no luck.

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  • FWIW, when I installed a Momentus XT in my MacBook I cloned my old drive with SuperDuper! and it did not boot. I had to reinstall Mac OS X. As a test, can you install a vanilla OS X installation and see if that boots?
    – fideli
    Oct 29, 2010 at 21:27
  • I have almost exactly the same setup (bit more memory and 160G X25-M, and it works just fine... although I didn't try to clone my system into the SSD, just did clean install. I'd assume that has something to do with the cloned OS. You could also try holding down command-V when booting to get to verbose mode, to see if OS X tells something useful about what it doesn't like.
    – af.
    Oct 30, 2010 at 6:35

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Re-installing Snow Leopard on to the SSD solved the problem and it didn't delete my user profiles and kept some settings.

After the install I did need to update to 10.6.4 and re-install the magic trackpad drivers. Other than that it was all fine.

Thanks for the re-assurance. Now my system is blazing fast!

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