I recently purchased David Leach's new Vida platform, the USB Vida2Go SSD drive, and can't get my MacBook Pro 8,1 (late 2011) to recognize the drive so I can boot from it and run Vida. I joined the Vida2Go Facebook group but haven't received much help. Is anyone else running Vida2Go on an older MacBook? Or does anyone who might be more computer savvy than me (doesn't take much) have any advice? I've gone through everything I've found online so far in reference to different methods for booting from an external drive with no success. David told me before I bought it that he knew of someone else running the same 8,1 platform who had no issues but so far that person hasn't responded on the facebook forum.
Thanks!
Sorry to hear about the troubles, I would PM Dave directly on Facebook, I know him and had him work my PC's harddrive for his suite of software. He'll help you once he finds time Im sure.
Unfortunately this isnt an R related post so I'll have to move this thread to the technical/obd2 forum.
Thank you. And sorry for not posting this in the correct spot, I wasn't paying attention. Not to throw him under the bus or anything but so far he has basically said I'm on my own as he isn't a, "mac guy". I would really very much like to get this up and running.
So basically I would see what needs to be done to handle a virtual desktop on a remote disk on a Mac- this surely has been done before. I would then go on maybe Volvospeed on Facebook or maybe even the P2R group on Facebook- a lot of people there have Daves stuff but noone here is really on Facebook
If I were you I would return the drive and setup a virtual machine on your mac. It will probably be less work than getting the drive to work and it will be free. There is a thread on this site by “rosey” i think, that should walk you through all the steps
I forgot I had an old Dell laptop just laying around. After upgrading the RAM it works great. Problem solved.
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