Cannot detect any drives in my macbook pro 13.
Hi,
I have a macbook pro 13" that was built December 2009 (so mid-2009 model).
About a month ago, out of nowhere (maybe after an update), my macbook started to freeze up/beachball.
I shutdown the machine, and then it wouldn't even boot up. Just saw the spiral and apple logo go into an infinite loop.
At first I thought it was the filesystem that was corrupted, but as I analyzed the issue it seemed like the drive refused to work. So I thought to myself it's a bad drive. I tried numerous things, until I ruled it was definitely the drive.
So I ordered an Intel X25-M 160GB SSD as a replacement.
In the meantime, I had a western digital passport 500GB drive (USB). So I installed OSX on it for the time being.
The drive arrived, and I swap it out. The drive isn't detected (doesn't show up in disk utility nor system profiler.) So I swap back in the original drive, it detects the drive.
At this point, I'm frustrated. What could be the problem?
So I decided to disassemble my passport drive, which happened to be a WD Scorpio Blue SATA2 500GB drive. I put that into the macbook pro 13". It's not detected.
So now I'm thinking it's the SATA controller issue only to find out these Macbook Pros are plauged with issues. I believe my Macbook Pro was shipped with EFI 1.7. So I downgrade to 1.6. I try all 3 drives, and only the original macbook drive is detected. Except it barely functions.
Now I connect all 3 drives to my PC. To my surprise all of them work fine. Even the original macbook drive. Infact the original macbook drive seems rather fit.
So at the moment, my macbook is useless without an external USB drive to boot from.
Is anyone experiencing similar issues? Drives not being detected at all?
Any suggestions or handy hints. I've exhausted all my resources and I'm frustrated. Note: I do not have applecare and the 3 month period has expired.
Thanks.
Naveen, go here:
https://selfsolve.apple.com/GetWarranty.do
Type in your Mac's serial number (which you can get off the box or from "About this Mac" in the Apple Menu, or even in System Profiler) and it should tell you how much warranty you have left and some options for contacting Apple (take it to an Apple Store is probably the best option if you can).
Hope this helps.
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