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Having successfully installed 250 Gb SSD in optical drive slot on my 2009 24" iMac and installed El Capitan onto SSD, my computer is now working well and fast. Only problem is that I don’t know how to access info still on old HD, e.g. photos, and download them onto the app in the news SSD. I hadn’t reckoned on this problem, naively thinking that the two memory devices would function in tandem
@peterbull - Peter, I’m confused ?? You swapped out the optical drive for your SSD so you shouldn’t have any problems access your old HD unless you disconnected its cables from the logic board by mistake. I would double check the connections. You may want to run Disk Utility to see if it shows the HD if it does then your issue is just a matter of making the drive visible on the desktop. Go to the Finder’s preferences and check Hard Disks.
The easiest way if you can, see if your computer has an extra slot and change the pin on the drive, if there is any, to make it a slave. You might have to add an external hard drive case and run it through the usb port on the computer. This would make it as comparable as an extra large usb.
buy a hd adaptor with its own power supply at the other end is a usb plug so you can plug a in to the usb port
It’s okay, you’re a Mac User. ;-p Sorry, I couldn’t help it. Okay with that silliness out of the way, you will want to get one of these. https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-5-25-INCH… This way you can remove, or have someone help you remove the old hard drive and connect it to the computer via USB. If you have any nerdy friends they probably have one already.
