MacBook Pro 13" 2010 hard drive

I get a folder with a "?" on boot up. I booted from the disk tools CD. Hard drive is listed, but no options are available - buttons are grayed out. I replaced the hard drive with the same results. What other options do I have to resolve this problem? OS - Snow Leopard, latest update.
Many thanks!

What do you mean you "Replaced" the hard drive.
If you put a new hard drive in the notebook and cloned or used Time Machine to copy all the data from the original hard drive, operating system, programs and personal data, to the new drive doing that just carried over everythinig that was wrong with the original hard drive and operating system.
You need to erase the new drive, re-install the operating system on it then copy over all your personal data from the old drive to the new. That also means you will need to re-install all the program you use on the new drive. Copying them from the old might also carry over some of the bad stuff that is on the old drive.

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Hey apple forums, ran into issues today and I want to know how to handle the situation. I bought a MacBook pro 13" (2010) model on may 1st 2010, it died 9 days latter, best buy replaced it free of charge (even though I had to fight them to do so) this next one ran fine from may 9th 2010 to June 22 2010, just shy of two months. What happened? The **** hard drive died (which by the way is a crappy seagate, I only buy western digital drives as they have NEVER failed me in the 10 years I have used them). The way i know this is because I am a pc repair technician and have run diagnostics and they all say drive is dead. When boot up (or attempt) the apple logo pops up and shows a progress bar (which I have never seen before) it stays on for 10 seconds and then disappears, then the normal circle loading animation begins, then my MacBook pro starts getting ridiculously hot and never loads up Mac os x 10.6.4. I am then forced to hold the power button for 10 seconds to kill the power. I can boot into windows 7 which tells me that it is strongly recommended to perform a disk check which hangs midway, or if I cancel it before it starts I can boot in to a working copy of windows 7. If I access or attach a external hard drive I get a blue screen that says "applehfs.dll" is the cause of the blue screen.
I did force boot the Mac os x install DVD and used the disk utility to first verify permissions and it came up with god knows how many errors, but won't let me repair permissions (it is grey out). So I proceed to do a disk volume check, it stops and says it is strongly recommended to backup as many files as possible and reformat the hard drive. I do have the equipment to recover data, however my concern is getting the hard drive replaced under warranty. Being a it support personnel I need my computer asap, it isn't my problem that the hard drive died so I am not going to just buy a new one, how does apple go about replacing NOT repairing the hard drive.
This is what I want, go to the apple store with my Macbook pro and my craftsman set of #000 screw drivers and take the hard drive out myself, hand the hard drive to the "genius" (which by the way are un qualified in my opinion to service my $1200 Macbook pro, as they scratched my first MacBook pro, and stripped the screws. Sorry Apple but you lost my trust). Have the genius hand me a replacement hard drive, I place that back into my MacBook pro and be on my merry way home to reinstall all of my programs and restore my data.
Is this a reasonable request and do you think apple will give me a hard time?
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Jakthebomb

No, that isn't a reasonable request, and it's not going to happen that way. If you want Apple to warrant your new drive, Apple will insist on installing it. If you want to choose your new hard drive, you'll have to buy and install it at your own expense. Given your impatience, your prejudices, and your low opinion of Apple service, that's certainly what you should do. In addition to getting your preferred drive and installing it on your own schedule, you'll get a much longer warranty than Apple would give you on it, and you'll get to keep the old drive to recover data from it if necessary (Apple would keep it if they replaced it.) Installing a new drive yourself will have no effect on the Apple warranty covering the rest of the machine, and being an IT professional, you can probably buy a new hard drive for even less than we ordinary mortals pay for them nowadays.
So yes, Apple owes you a new drive, but if you can't accept the terms on which Apple will provide it, by all means just buy and install one yourself and get on with your life.

Macbook Pro mid 2010 hard drive beep, click, freeze BACK after Lion?

I have a mid-2010 Macbook Pro and I had the same problem that was described here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/9817201?messageID=9817201#9817201
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15055210#15055210
Like many others, mine stopped beeping after the Software Update released by Apple when they admitted there was a problem. However, since I've upgraded to Lion, the hard drive is back to its old ways of beeping, clicking, and freezing. Anyone else having this problem again? Anyone else think this is an odd coincidence? I called support and, after going through the usual troubleshooting, they escalated to a supervisor who wanted me to go through the same troubleshooting only to tell me that I should take it into an Apple Store where they'll likely send it in for testing. I haven't done it yet because it's rather inconvenient to have to jump through the same hoops and be without my computer again when the problem seems fairly obvious based on my history with this machine. I'm actually hoping it's hardware failure at this point so I don't have to wait for them to acknowledge another problem.

Hi Luke,
The click/beep was happening more and more and was starting to drive me nuts.
I contacted Apple/Seagate but neither were helpful at all.
I went to my local Apple representative but they said they would need to hold on to my laptop for 1-2weeks while they checked out the issue and then replaced the HDD and the same model, this was something I couldn't do as I need my laptop for work everyday.
Apple's online support (+ call) just told me to bring it into my local Apple representative so that went nowhere.
In the end I shelled out my own money to fix Seagate/Apples problem and bought a Seagate Momentus XT 500GB drive which I have had no issue with since I got it, about 6 months.
It also speeds up my Mac with the inbuilt SSD cache. I recommend it.
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/internal-storage/momentus-xt-kit/
I also just saw that Seagate now offer a 750GB model.
FYI, I had this click/beep issue in Snow Leopard too.
For anyone doing a google, here is the exact HDD I have now which works well:
ST95005620AS:
Capacity:          500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
Model:          ST95005620AS
Revision:          SD26
Serial Number: ***
Native Command Queuing:          Yes
Queue Depth:          32
Removable Media:          No
Detachable Drive:          No
BSD Name:          disk0
Rotational Rate:          7200
Medium Type:          Rotational
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Verified

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In the 'Get Info' section, it says read-only. However, the hard drive have just been recently bought.
I had the same problem with our previous hard drive. Although the previous hard drive was 'read-only' I was able to copy and paste files in our old HP laptop.
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Backed Up from macbook pro to external hard drive for use on PC--how to restore to macbook pro?

Good evening,
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Message was edited by: fmwhelp

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MacBook Pro - Which internal hard drive do you recommend?

I have a mid 2010 13-inch Macbook Pro. I currently have a 250 GB internal hard drive, and with bootcamp and all, I find myself constantly running out of space. I want to upgrade my internal hard drive to 750 GB or 1TB, but I would like the new hard drive to be at the same speed or faster than my stock hard drive.
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5400 RPM Toshiba 1TB model MQ01ABD100 $65 on amazon
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     I need your help guys from the whole world.
I am now in Erbil (North Iraq) and there is no apple authorized resellers or anyone who can fix macs, they can destroy them as they try to repair it ( this is what happened      to me recently with My I phone and I pad). So I am left alone to fix it with your global help I hope.
The issue is, I didn't do back up on my mac book pro for over a year. I woke up 3 days ago, switched my mac and there was this funny pinc ponc noise coming from the lower right hand side of my mac (between track pad and keyboard), the computer was going slow and I wasnt able to do anything even after few restarts. It is always too slow to perform anything and this noise always start after few seconds of starting and keep going. the computer can still function very well on guest account *(safari only) and I don't hear the noise then nor when I press T. But if I try to log in to all my drive or in safe mode I get this noise and none function computer. when I went to disk utility there was message in red to back up my data immediately and take the hard drive to authorized service center.
I checked on internet, you tube and others..and it seems I have faulty hard drive. Since I am here alone and no service center so I think I will replace it myself. But first thing first i need to back up my precious data. I found few ways of doing this and I wonder if you can give me some tips, advise or any other method to do the back up.
1) Transfer data on target mode: I havent done this before but I am thinking to connect my faulty macbook pro to another with firewire, pressing T on the faulty Mac and install Super Duper on the other mac. Then I connect external hard drive to the working mac via USB. And the question is     :      can I transfer the files this way to an external bootable hard drive connected to the working mac     , so the working mac will function as bridge between faulty mac and external hard drive. Also can I do this process through my old none intel based power book(which I am using now) instead of borrowing macbook from friend?
2) Buy new hard drive, open my mac and replace the faulty one. then put the faulty one in external inclosure, connect to refurbished mac and transfer data back. Can I do this? will I need to install the mac os from the CD associated with it before I do transfer?
Is there any other way to do this please?

Jassos wrote:
Hi PlotinusVeritas
where do I download the superdoper please?
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/superduperdescription.html
its here:
Download the free trial now!
This simple software is free and very easy to use, yes, it makes a 100% clone of ALL on your HD, everything.
(assuming its not so dead it wont copy).
you only need the free trial version to clone your HD.
can I download it on guest account? this one I can login and seems to function fine.
Then install same on your guest account, that wouldnt matter, since Superduper clones everything (except the recovery partition which you dont need in your case right now).
LaCie is Seagate (lacie doesnt make HD) , yes, that would be fine, clone your HD ASAP and hope it works.
there is no software fix for HD hardware failure, ......this is why a backup copy of data is so very important all the time, period.

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There are two things you could do:
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Léonie

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