Hello All,
My Mac (late 2009 13 inch Macbook Pro 2.26ghz) was not booting and I was getting a Circle with a line crossing through it instead of the apple logo after powering up. I assumed the hard drive was bad and replaced it. I went to partition the new drive and it wasnt showing up in disc utility, all I could see was the OS X install disc.
Went to Mac store and they told me the drive I replaced it with was also a dud. Got another drive and same problem can't see it in disc utility. Bought an external enclosure and I can see both drives I bought as well as the original can been seen in disc utility when plugged they are plugged in the external enclosure. Currently, reformatting the new drive through the external usb connection and then planning on installing it in the Macbook to see what happens.
Any ideas why disk utility can see the drives when installed inside the Macbook? bad sata cable possible??
Thanks
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My Mac (late 2009 13 inch Macbook Pro 2.26ghz) was not booting and I was getting a Circle with a line crossing through it instead of the apple logo after powering up. I assumed the hard drive was bad and replaced it. I went to partition the new drive and it wasnt showing up in disc utility, all I could see was the OS X install disc.
Went to Mac store and they told me the drive I replaced it with was also a dud. Got another drive and same problem can't see it in disc utility. Bought an external enclosure and I can see both drives I bought as well as the original can been seen in disc utility when plugged they are plugged in the external enclosure. Currently, reformatting the new drive through the external usb connection and then planning on installing it in the Macbook to see what happens.
Any ideas why disk utility can see the drives when installed inside the Macbook? bad sata cable possible??
Thanks
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