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Hello, I have a MBP 13" 2010 where the old HDD was somewhat damaged. It could only boot up in safe mode and was very slow then. I bought a new HDD and HD cable. Installed the new HD cable and HDD, but when I booted up from Disk Utility it couldn’t detect any HDD. Tried changing the HDD to the old HDD, but now it couldn’t find the old HDD either and it couldn’t even boot up in safe mode. So I don’t really know what the problem could be? Update Have contacted the HDD service provider, but no response so far. Can it be anything else than than the HDD or the cable? What if I have broken something else than the cable or HDD, could that maybe be the problem? Because I found this thing laying on my table as you can see in picture 1 and 2.
Update Don’t know how to insert pictures without “answering”… But I’m pretty sure the lock is from the screen cable (or so I was told). It’s the cable right here (the lower left corner in the last picture of my last “answer”.
It happened when I pulled the cover off, because some glue was stuck to the cable and cover. Pretty sure it’s that, but not sure. But if it the screen cable, could it still be the problem? Update No one got any ideas for a solution?
Recheck your connections…. check that the SATA version of the new HDD matches that of the old one. If this answer is acceptable please remember to return and mark it.
That part is the cover for the LCD connector, see step #9 of this guide: MacBook Pro 13" Unibody Mid 2010 LCD Replacement I do not believe this has anything to do with the hard drive issue. I think you got a bad cable. Hook up the old drive and boot up using the command R and see if the drive is seen.
Hi Mattias Damsgaard , You can also try your hard disk on another system; if there it recognize the please check your SATA cable or you can also contact your HDD Service provider.
reseat your hard drive make sure connections are fully seated., if you hear the drive spinning that’s good. Does this mac have a BIOS setup? it’s possible that your bios firmware doesn’t support features on this drive. usually you can upgrade the firmware (get it from apple) but before you do that, take that hard drive out, and try it in another computer, doesn’t matter if it’s pc or mac. See if the other computer detects it, if it doesn’t the drive is dead. If it does work in another computer, the issue is definitely with the mac-book, that’s when I’d check on bios firmware updates. Nothing looks broke from the pictures, if you can show bios setup pictures it would help but I suspect you have a bad hard drive. Just because it’s a new drive, doesn’t mean the guy at best buy didn’t accidentally drop it before you got it. :)
that hard drive, does it have a partition table yet? As I stated previously you will likely need to upgrade some firmware. Here is a link pertaining to this situation: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2434 Hopefully this will resolve this once and for all. You might have to install it in the other MacBook temporarily so you can use it’s disk utility to format the new drive for GUID partition table, otherwise firmware update won’t work. Let us know how this pans out for you.
