If the drive is not recognized by the system at all, but is recognized when plugged into a Windows PC, then, man, I don't know what to tell you. The current partitioning scheme and the filesystem/format of those partitions should not prevent the drive from showing up under Disk Utility, though, and OP clearly stated in the post that they went into Disk Utility and the drive is nowhere to be found. Does she have another laptop-form-factor SATA hard drive that she can stick in there to see if the computer only has problems with the SSD or in fact has problems with any HDD? Perhaps the main hard drive bay no longer works. It makes me wonder if in fact the failure that your cousin experienced was not actually with the hard drive but was some problem with the logic board itself.
So when OP says they don't "see the drive mounted in Disk Utility," this is ambiguous, and casts doubt on what was meant before when OP wrote that "the SSD does not show up in Disk Utility."Ĭfedu, do you mean that the drive shows up but the Mount button is grayed out in Disk Utility, or do you mean that it literally is not visible anywhere in Disk Utility? If the former, then yeah, jav6454 is right, and you need to repartition the disk as GUID and create an HFS+ volume on it. although, granted, OP's terminology is confusing technically, drives don't "mount", the logical volumes - partitions - on the drives are mounted, and will only mount if the OS in question recognizes and supports the volume's filesystem.
She has an appointment tomorrow with an apple specialist, she will bring in the macbook pro with the SSD as they left it inside.ĭo you think the old hard drive was the real problem or do you think they just broke something installing the SSD? What other modes of failure do you think this could have been caused by?Ĭlick to expand.The current partitioning scheme and the filesystem/format of those partitions should not prevent the drive from showing up under Disk Utility, though, and OP clearly stated in the post that they went into Disk Utility and the drive is nowhere to be found.
The SSD does mount on a windows based PC so i think the SSD is fine.
I talked her through a PRAM reset, and SMC reset, and still do not see the drive mounted in disk utility. The DVD drive does show up and so does her USB stick. After they changed the drive they tried to do an internet recovery but the SSD does not show up in Disk utility. The new drive is a Samsung 840 250 GB ssd. I would have done it but i'm in a different city. I thought it must be a hard drive failure so told her to get an SSD and have her boyfriend change it. She told me she was getting the spinning beach ball for the past 2 weeks and it finally died a few days ago. My cousins 2012 13" MacBook Pro died this week, one week out of warranty.