Crashing and can't find start up disk

[tashanna]

I have a mid-2012 13" MacBook Pro. Bought in July 2013. Two months ago I replaced the HDD cable. It was running fine until now. It's constantly getting the spinning colourful circle and I have to force turn off and back on. But when I do that it can't find the start up disk. So I have to use fsck to modify it and get it back. But then it crashes again and I have to do it again. I've done it 4x today. The cause is unknown, it's happened twice while trying to open gmail, once when closing a Google Chrome tab and once when trying to open the application folder. It seems to be getting hot as well, as hot as it gets when I watch a movie (but I'm only on word or browsing). The battery has said service battery for a few months.

I'm not taking this $1500 piece of junk in just so I can pay more so they will look at it and tell me what's wrong so I can fork over more money. They overcharge on everything and I completely regret getting this thing.

Does it sound like it needs a repair? If it does I'm done with this thing. After spending a few hundred on an HDD repair and replacing the power adaptor 3x for $120 each, this thing is a money pit.

 

[chscag]

Sounds like your hard drive is failing. You can change that out yourself if it is indeed bad. Cost of a new hard drive replacement should be less than $100.00. Also, you could have certainly benefitted from purchasing the additional Apple Care when you first bought your computer.

 

[tashanna]

Even with Apple Care you still have to pay, just not as much. It's a rip off. Something that costs nearly $1500 should have a better warranty. Should have just gone with a Windows computer and got the exact same specs for $1000 less and better warranty. My mistake, I assumed "you get what you pay for" but obviously not. Money grabbers. You can't even talk to them without paying them. Time to sell this piece of garbage.

 

[chscag]

With Apple Care all the problems you stated above would have been covered at no cost to you. However, it sounds like your through with Apple, so perhaps it's best to sell the MacBook Pro and purchase something else. Thanks for your post and better luck with your next machine.

 

[harryb2448]

What an uninformed trashy post by an 'Apple Hater'!

 

[techiesteve]

The OP can only be a troll.

 

[Rod]

Sounds easily fixed and at not much cost if DIY. OP doesn't mention what OS is running but would assume later than 10.8 so Restore partition could be run just to check HD. Sounds like a troll to me.