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Apr 1, 2012

My wife has a Macbook with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (Macbook4,1).  I am trying to replace the original SATA hard disk (160 GB) with an SSD.  I have two SSDs here with me: 

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2) Crucial M4, 128 GB 

In both cases, after replacing the hard disk with the SSD, I am unable to get the Macbook to get any further than the "Mac sound" and grey screen. 

In my first attempt, I cloned the original disk to the SSD on another computer, verified the data got on there OK, and installed the SSD into the Macbook.  In subsequent attempts, I just formatted the SSD to see if the Mac would recognize it at all. 

When the original hard disk is installed, and my Snow Leopard install DVD is in the DVD drive, during the boot, I can hold down the option key and get a boot choice of booting from the hard disk or the DVD.  With either SSD installed, when holding down the option key I get no choices at all, it just sits there (it does access the DVD for a few seconds but then nothing). 

I have another 160 GB "regular" hard disk here as well and when I install that I also get the choice to boot from the hard disk or the DVD (although booting from the hard disk does not work since it's a hard disk from a PC). 

combination of Macbook and SSD, installing into the hard drive bay?  I've seen many posts from people who have had success putting an SSD into their Macbook so I am assuiming it's possible. 

Some more information about the Macbook:

Boot ROM Version: MB41.00C1.B00

SMC Version: 1.31f1 

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