Booting won't work leads to prohibited sign

[Bman114]

Hey, so last night I was stupid and hard shut off my macbook pro... and the end result was trying to re-boot and getting the prohibited sign and then leading me to disk utility..



Now my SSD shows up in Disk Utility, but disk0s2 which my operating system and all of that is on is grayed out and not mounted.. I've tried in the terminal mounting it that way and hard mounting it, no luck.



If i go to reinstall OS X the SSD doesn't show up as a harddrive to boot the only one that shows up to install to is - Recovery HD.



I've done the boot option where you can select where to boot off of and once again the SSD doesn't show up..



Restore from TIme machine doesn't work because the SSD isn't showing up as an option to use a recovery point..

I've also tried resetting the PRAM


Any ideas? Thank you so much

 

[Weaselboy]

Sounds like a dead drive. Just force shutting down like you did would not kill a drive like this.

 

[Newtons Apple]

I agree, the laptop should not become un-bootable for force shut downs unless you were in the middle of updating the OS. Time to visit Apple.

 

[happyslayer]

Yeah, sadly, this sounds like the drive died. Did you have to force-shutdown because it froze or something similar? If so, that initial freeze was the drive dying. Force-shutdown is all you can do at that point. I've seen this behavior more than once in the last 23 years of being a computer support person. If it's still under any kind of warranty, I'd make an Apple appointment.

 

[Bman114]

Yeah, sadly, this sounds like the drive died. Did you have to force-shutdown because it froze or something similar? If so, that initial freeze was the drive dying. Force-shutdown is all you can do at that point. I've seen this behavior more than once in the last 23 years of being a computer support person. If it's still under any kind of warranty, I'd make an Apple appointment.

So I force shut downed because I was frustated that my login password wasn't working typed right.. so I just forced shut down it not thinking to just do the actual restart button lol. So it's out of warranty its a 2013. I think I actually put this SSD in because something similar happened before.

And to Newton it wasn't in the middle of an update.

So my question now is should I just buy a new SSD and put it in my self? I'm capable of doing it since I put this one in a couple of years ago. and I'm sure Apple will pay a lot to just put in a SSD? OR should I still go to apple to get it officially diagnosed ?

AND thank you so much to everyone for answering to this post so quick!