But why would it lock up the Mini so I can't keyboard control it to boot from another bootable drive. I know there are issues with SSD in the Mac Mini. What I am trying to find out is why would that SSD drive cause the keyboard to not be able to call up selective booting? I can understand the drive not working for some reason. I have tried to reset the PRAM and other suggestions I have found. If I try to use the C command or any other keyboard boot command to force the Mini to find either the original boot CD, or USB or the original hard drive now in the external enclosure, there is no response. When the SSD drive is then transferred to the internal bay of the Mini, the Mini will start to boot, but then it will eventually display the "prohibited (circle with a diagonal line through it)" symbol and just sit there. ITunes, Mail, iPhoto all run perfectly as if they are running from the original internal drive. The Mini boots perfectly from the SSD in the external enclosure plugged in to the Mini's USB port. Carbon Copy Cloner was the cloning software used. The SSD was partitioned correctly with a single GUID partition. Its internal 320GB drive was cloned to a SanDisk 480GB SSD (non-SandForce controller). Late 2009 Mac Mini running latest Mavericks 10.9.
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