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A friend of mine recently got a hold of a 2008 17" Macbook Pro. The HDD on it was shot to crap, so he yanked an older SSD he had lying around and out that into it.
The SSD has an install of Windows 10 and that boots and functions just fine. However, since the drive isn't an Apple drive and doesn't have OS X on it, there's no recovery partition.
I've tried MANY MANY MANY times to create a bootable install USB of Mountain Lion (figure I'd start at the bottom and work up). But it seems to just hang on the gray Apple logo screen before the "Welcome" screen EVERY TIME.
I did a verbose mode start up just to see where it's hanging, however I can't make heads or tails of what it's telling me.
Can someone lend a hand?
The SSD has an install of Windows 10 and that boots and functions just fine. However, since the drive isn't an Apple drive and doesn't have OS X on it, there's no recovery partition.
I've tried MANY MANY MANY times to create a bootable install USB of Mountain Lion (figure I'd start at the bottom and work up). But it seems to just hang on the gray Apple logo screen before the "Welcome" screen EVERY TIME.
I did a verbose mode start up just to see where it's hanging, however I can't make heads or tails of what it's telling me.
Can someone lend a hand?
