MBP not starting up... Not a broken HDD, apparently.

My fiancee's MBP suddenly decided not to boot up. We tried everything, and the MBP just doesn't want to see the drive. As a last resort we took the HDD out and connect through a SATA-USB bridge. This boots the MBP up, and of course we Time Machined everything immediately. What's the problem here?
Also as experiment, I put a HDD with Windows installed on it into the SATA slot in the MBP. Funny enough, the MBP recognizes the drive, boot me into Windows, but freezes eventually - which I kinda expected as it was originally used for a PC notebook.
With the original MBP plugged in, my Linux GParted doesn't see the drive either... It is very strange.
We work on ships, and we are at least 4 more months away from vacation. There's no Apple Store in range, and we don't have enough port time to wait anyway. We are quite helpless on this issue. The MBP is 3-yo now, and we don't wanna just ditch it and buy a new one, not to mention it's freaking expensive...
Sigh.

Just a quick update... After spending a ridiculous amount of money for the taxi ride, we finally got to the Apple Store @ U-Village, Seattle. We booked an appointment in advance, but the earliest available was 10:45AM. We went early anyway, and sure enough, the staff at the store were all friendly and let us move up to 9:45-ish when one of their appointments didn't show up. After some testing, it appeared that it was indeed the cable. With labour the final cost of the whole repair was $56 something. I have to say I am quite satisfied with the overall experience.
Thank you very much again for providing the info, for that I believe it sped up the whole process because they could pinpoint the problem so much quicker. Cheers everyone!

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Not the brightest thing to do while the computer is updating. What did you think would happen? You could have just let it run and gone to bed. Not knowing which updates you are referring to I would hesitate to guess that you now have directory issues or worse. So, your options are:
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Hello
I bought my wife a new MacBook Pro, in setting it up for her, I took her Time Machine external drive to migrate onto the new machine but her old MBP not only was on 10.6, it was my old machine which I was still Administrator for.
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I also unchecked the Administrative end that had my info hoping that ONLY her data, files, etc., would be the ones sent over to her new machine which I wanted her to be the ONLY Administrator for. All went like clockwork until the restart.
Normally the screen should show the username and only need the password but both entries were blank, as in ‘Other’ sign in option available only. I entered her name and password, nothing….used her username and password, nothing. Used my old Administrator name and password, NOTHING!
I tried defaulting to factory settings from the Restore feature but it directs me to notify Apple. I tried in Terminal to change the password, nothing. I tried to boot from MY external drive and it doesn’t recognize it. I tried to even use my external drive which actually has the Mavericks upgrade, nothing!
Basically I can only get the startup screen which isn’t accepting the username/password or the Restore feature which doesn’t offer any options helpful!
Please, how do I start from scratch and start over here? Or simply change the Administrator name and password so I can proceed with everything thats already on there? I wish I could even boot from another drive but no luck on anything!

First, on the old machine, make your wife's account an admin one. Log into it and delete yours. Then, update the TM backup. Finally, use Internet recovery mode, ⌘⌥R, erase the HD, and restore the OS. One first boot, follow the steps outlined in Pondini's Setup New Mac guide.

I updated my ipad1 thru iTunes from 4.2.1 to 4.3.5 and now having issues, especially playing videos. Anything I should know. I have not jail broken my iPad and don't want to.

I updated my ipad1 thru iTunes from 4.2.1 to 4.3.5 and now having issues, especially playing videos. Anything I should know. I have not jail broken my iPad and don't want to.

you update it by connecting it to a computer running itunes and starting itunes up on the computer clicking on it in devices and clicking on the update button in the content menu
if it say you have the latests then it's because you don't own an iphone 3gs but an iphone 3g where the version 4.2.1 was the last released
in that case you can't ever update it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history#Current_versions

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I have a HP Pavillion dv2910us with a nearly broken HDD (it makes weird sounds and lags quite often). Therefore I bought a new HDD on ebay. I bought the same Type (Toshiba MK2552GSX) with the same capacity (250 GB). But when I install it and try to install Windows on it, the Installation wizards tells me that it doesn't recognize any HDD in the system. When I connect the HDD via an USB cable to a different computer it works perfectly.
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Hendrik

Hi,
You don't need to buy a HDD from HP, the one you've bought should work perfectly.
Did your old HDD have a plastic adapter on the end to enable the drive to plug in vertically rather than horizontally? If it did, ensure this is securely fitted to the new drive.
Does the metal caddy from your old drive fit the new drive ok?
Does your old hard drive get detected if you install it in the notebook?
Look forward to hearing from you.
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I believe I have exhausted all other avenues, and I would appreciate some help if I have missed something obvious.
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lol yea when i inserted the link i just copied and pasted thats why that happend... Lets try again... http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/
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AlaskanElizabeth wrote:
Happily- perhaps the most legit tech site on the Internet- cnet:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57506159-83/apples-ios-and-android-are-new-favo rite-malware-victims/
They broke a story on sept 4, 2012 titled "apple's iOS, the new favorite malware victims"
Despite the dramatic title of the article, the only mention of iOS in the body was this:
Even though malware is increasing in iOS, it still remains relatively low compared with other operating systems.
And, it provides no examples or other documentation. And, unlike you, I don't consider CNET "the most legit tech site on the internet". I find them to be generally biased in their reiviews and heavily influenced by advertisers.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/06/26/yes-apples-machines-really-ca n-get-viruses
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/15/iphone-malware-kaspersky_n_1515074.html
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Again, even Kaspersky doesn't say such things exist now, merely that they might.
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I.m korean.. so My English isn't good
I bought HP split X2 G210DX not included 500gb HDD
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Hi @Parkjh
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