MacBook Pro :: Internal HDD Isn't Detected Anymore While Booting
Jun 5, 2014
My internal hdd isn't detected anymore while booting. What happened: after plugging in an USB-printer my macbook freezed immediately and I had to shut down by pressing 5 seconds on power button. I pressed power on button and my internal hdd isn't detected anymore while booting (question mark is blinking).
After replacement by a new ssd and booting via USB the new ssd isn't detected, too.Is the internal SATA3 cable broken or is it a defect of some kind of SATA3 controller assemled on mainboard?
Info:
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3), Mid 2012
So recently my Mac crashed and stopped working as explained there: Major crash?
I was thinking, as everyone, that this problem was coming from the hardware. So I got a new one, and tried to install it. BUT the problem is still here! It just doesn't detect my internal hard drives anymore!! (For the ones who didn't read the original thread, the flashing folder with a question mark on it was appearing each time I was starting my mac, and I couldn't repair the disk since it wasn't detected.)
What could prevent my hard drives from being detected??
Info: MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9)
When accessing the website; 'WhatUsersDo', which is used for testing websites, you are required to provide an audio recording of your thoughts about the website which you are testing, However, I am unable to submit an application to become one of the testers, as it is saying that I need to enable a microphone before I can continue with my application (as you are required to take a practice test during the application).
I have looked through other forums, and my microphone is working fine.
My Mac Pro, used very little as yet in this life following a fortuitous acquisition from my former company, is failing to recognize one of the three hard disks. I have a 320 gb system disk running Snow L, and two 500 gb disks which are currently empty of data. Following boot, the second of the 500 gb drives isn't available - it doesn't appear on my desktop, or in Finder, or in the side bar when I launch Disk Utility.
The system profile information returns a single line saying there was an error when trying to detect information about my disks - it doesn't give me information on any of them. In its previous life this disk was a mirrored RAID array (with the other 500 gb drive) used a shared file server for standard office documents etc in what I would call a modest load environment - it was no media studio!
I recently switched my hard drive to a new one where I installed OS X. For some reason when I swapped the new drive, it doesn't see the drive when booting, but I can still see it recognize when I boot off a map and an extended partition)
I can no longer burn DVD's on my PowerPC G5 with 10.5.8, but can no longer do it as well on my Macbook Pro with OS 10.6--are all internal Superdrives now non functioning!!?? I've wasted many DVD's and no successes, just error messages and failures to burn.
Info: PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), PowerPC Processor
My MacBook's hard drive recently took a turn for the worst. I can't boot up from my external with the drive still installed. If I take my internal hard drive out can I then boot up my mac from my external?
i have a pc, with a firewire chip, can i boot my iMac G4 from a tiger iso extracted to the hard drive in the pc(with nothing else on it) using the alt/option key? If not, how can i install OS X without the DVD, without using another mac?
I'm running OS X 10.4.11 on a 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro and I want to make a copy of the entire internal HDD on a external (500 Gb) drive, so that I would be able to boot from the external hard-drive. I'm interested in doing it because I want to have a back-up for the internal HDD, in case it fails, I'll just plug-in the external HDD, boot from it and continue working using <b>only</b> the external HDD, which will be an image of the actual internal one. Please tell me if this is possible? If yes, how exactly do I create a bootable, full disk image of the entire internal HDD, how do I copy it on the external HDD and how do I boot from the external drive?
For the last couple of month or two, my MacBook Pro hasn't always been recognising all of my 4Gb of RAM and only detecting one of the two 2Gb RAM installed.
I thought it might have been a hardware problem but I have been able to restart OS X when it only detects 2Gb and after it has rebooted it would see all 4Gb of RAM but recently (last week or so) when I restart this no longer happens and it still only detects 2Gb not matter how many times I restart.
The 4Gb of RAM installed is the factory shipped RAM and I haven't opened my MBP to make any modifications.
For some reason when I boot into Windows 7 through BootCamp it detects all 4Gb of RAM.
I am having real trouble running some applications that I need due to the fact that I only have half the installed RAM available.
Info: MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz, 4GB RAM
I bought a 4-port USB hub (Gear Head if it matters) and it's supposed to just plug in and work. I normally use a USB mouse & keyboard, thus taking up 2 out of 2 of my MacBook Pro's USB slots. I bought the Hub so I could add in a light or speaker for late night gaming sessions and quiet videos respectively. The light on the USB Hub turns on, but it isn't detected by my MacBook Pro. Anything I plug in to it recieves enough power to turn on (Speaker's Power light turns on, Mouse's laser will turn on, etc...) but they aren't detected by the MacBook Pro. IE; Mouse won't move on screen, keyboard will not type, speaker isn't shown as an option for outgoing sound device, etc...
Using both smcFanControl and istat, I cannot get a reading on my fan speeds. I can hear my exhaust fan spinning, but these programs tell me it is always at 000 rpm. Also, I don't think the fan control is working, as I don't hear an increase in fan speed when I make adjustments.
Does anyone know how I can get these apps to recognize my exhaust fan?
I'm running Mac OS X Lion (latest version) on a MacBook Pro mid-2010 model. OS X Lion was installed via recovery tools a few days ago. Today I plugged in a brand new Crucial M4 SSD via USB and it got detected. I restarted the laptop in recovery mode using cmd + R and chose to install Lion on the external SSD. For this I first had to partition the SSD before it showed up as a valid drive where Lion could be installed. The installation went almost to the end, but then stopped rather strangely for a very long time. So I decided to cancel the installation and restarted the laptop normally. Since then the Crucial M4 SSD is not being detected at all (doesn't even show up in Disk Utility).
I have a MacBook Air and am trying via DVI cable to connect another display? The Mac will not detect the other screen. Any suggestions would be terrific. Do I need to "install" the old screen?
I have an early 2011 Macbook Pro 13 it was working OK but now has come up no batteries detected and I have tried a pram reset, smc reset and a new battery but still no luck. I did manage to get it to work for a while by turning it on with the power adapter connect then restarting it but at the point of the restart I pulled the power and it came on with the battery.
If I start it with the power adapter connected and then pull the power it will boot to the login screen briefly then go into sleep until I reconnect the power. When the power adapter is connected it just has a solid green light at all times never changes even if I do the smc reset.
Info: MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10), Early 2011
I recently purchased a new SSD and would like to input that into my MBP 2012. If I have a partition on my external HDD that contains the carbon copy of my MBP, am I able to clone it into my SSD after I have installed it in the MBP through the USB?
Internal HDD --> External HDD Place internal HDD into optibay, and place SSD into the harddisk slot Connect External HDD via USB to MBP CarbonCopy to new SSD via USB from External HDD Format Internal HDD
I have a macbook pro and i used my old phillips tv for a 2nd screen. Bought a DVI-I to DVI-I cable, and was working just fine. For xmas I got a Dynex 26inch. I noticed it has a VGA and not DVI input, so I figured I would buy a DVI-I to VGA adapter and still be able to use the same cable. I go to hook it up and my TV says no signal.
On my laptop it detected the tv as BBY LCD TV, but still has no picture. Is there a setting I need to change? Or is the better route going with a new DVI-I to VGA or HDMI cable?
when i entered any disc (dvd/cd), my mac cant detect it and instead there's like an alarm sound. after a few minutes, it automatically eject the disc without giving any error message whatsoever.
i'm using Model Name:MacBook Model Identifier:MacBook5,1 Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed:2 GHz
I upgraded to 10A432 last week. Today I plug in my headphones and to my surprise they dont work. If the headphones are plugged in audio comes out of computer speaker. Under Sound in Syspref it doesn't see the headphone. My mac is still under the 90 day warranty but I am studying in Purdue and don't know where the nearest apple store is.
I have a Hanns-G 22in monitor that I'm trying to connect to my new Macbook Pro. There's a DVI cable connected from the monitor to the macbook pro with a little converter cable. I've tried what seems like every iteration of sleeping, turning off, and turning on both the laptop and the monitor to no avail. The monitor always remains black as if it's connected to nothing. I know the monitor is good, too, as I use it for my PC on a daily basis.
I just upgraded my late model Penryn MBP from the stock Hitachi 200GB 5400rpm drive to a Seagate 500GB 7200rpm drive. Performance wise, I'm happy. XBench is indicating a significant gain on the disk test (especially in the sequential test) and I loved being able to use Quicksilver almost as soon as I saw the menubar. However, when I turned on the machine, it did not recognize the drive automatically, and I had to hold down the Option key in order to get it to boot from the disk. I cloned my old HD using CarbonCopy Cloner. Once I did that everything was (obviously) fine. How can I get the MBP to recognize my new disk as the default boot volume?
After installing the 10.7.4 Update, my MacBookPro 15 inch, early 2011, says "No Wi-Fi hardware detected".After resetting the PRAM and the SMC, functionality came back, but only until i have to shutdown the Book. After turning it on on again, again "No Wi-Fi hardware detected" under the Wi-Fi symbol in the menue bar. Again, after resetting PRAM (waiting for 3 chimes at startup), Wi-Fi hardware is detected again and working properly.
Trying to run BT broadband speed checker It keeps telling me Flash is not stalled It is and I have disabled Ad-block, click to Flash etc and restarted...
Info: MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), MBPR 13" 4 RAM MID 2010
I have a macbook pro. There is a built in camera. I can use to camera with Imovie, but it does not detect the camera with screenflow. I do not see the isight software on my machine. Do I simply need to buy the software? Seems like it should of been on the computer already (purchased used)
I've been running a Benq G2400W on my MacBook Pro since December 2008 with no problems. I recently has my logic board replaced due to a power issue. I got the computer back a few weeks ago. For some odd reason, my monitor refuses to accept the signal from my MacBook Pro over DVI. I can use the DVI to Analog converter and it works just fine.
I did find a thread over at Apple Support Discussions outlining the exact issue I am having. The solution is to remove a pin from the DVI cable. I shouldn't have to destroy a cable to get this to work again. I might order a new cable/adapter from monoprice.com and destroy it if that is my only option though.
I just can't figure out what changed except for the logic board swap...but I don't remember if it has worked over DVI since I got it back.
I deleted the windowserver plist for my user and the system one with no change in behavior. Are there any other settings I could try resetting?
I've unplugged the Benq and reset the monitor via the OSD to default settings.
I did read over at anandtech that it could be HDCP related...but I'm not trying to watch a video.
I plugged the laptop into a Dell 1905 at work via DVI and it worked perfectly fine.
My Mac Air till a few days ago till it suddenly started giving me this error: There is no camera connected! I'm neither able to use PhtoBooth nor am I able to use FaceTime?
