macbook pro hard drive cable replacement

Saved a macbook pro i had my hands on, the hard drive wasn't recognized (even in the disk utils in recovery mode - the hardware test saying everything was fine on the computer) because this part certainly broke after the computer fell. Great life saving, reasonably priced bit of kit! Man it's amazing how slow a mechanical drive is once you're used to SSD!! So glad to get this sorted. Install successful and new MacBook living up to its fully potential. So with nothing to loose, I bought this kit.Īfter a 10 minute install, I was up and running, SSD recognised and was installing Mac OS. Seems the SATA cable that connects the drive to the logic board can fail over time or even if it works with a HDD, is unable to deal with the increased throughput from a faster SSD. The weird thing was that every time I put the original mechanical HDD back in, the MacBook would start fine.Īfter much confusion, frustration and googling, I fould that a lot of other people had similar problems with 2012 MacBooks.

The SSD would format fine in an external caddy but every time installed it into my new MacBook and I tried to install Mac OS via a bootable USB stick, the MacBook would either not recognise the SSD or if I did manage to get it to be recognised, the install either failed or the one time I did get it to install, it wouldn't start and instead gave 'flashing folder' (is not found) errors. RAM installed I set about trying to install a new SSD. It was good deal but needed an SSD and a RAM upgrade to bring it up to speed. Afghanistan, Africa, American Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bhutan, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, China, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Fiji, French Polynesia, Georgia, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niue, North America, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, South America, South East Asia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Tajikistan, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Virgin Islands (U.S.I bought a secondhand MacBook Pro 2012 13' to replace my recently dead 2011.

Macbook pro hard drive cable replacement