Disk utility will not see internal drive.

[roontoon]

Hi,

I have a 13" late 2011 MacBook Pro. It would boot to the flashing question mark so I thought I had a bad hard drive which I got. I installed it and my my install disk could not see the drive. Also disk utility could not see it. Did a little research and many people have had cables fail, got one and installed it and nada. The machine boots fine off of a USB enclosure with the original drive. Have reset pram too. Anything else I can do?

Thanks,

D

 

[Buckaye]

if you have another computer and a usb adapter - you could see if you can read the drive from another computer?

 

[roontoon]

if you have another computer and a usb adapter - you could see if you can read the drive from another computer?

Did that with my old drive like I said in my original post.

 

[Buckaye]

Did that with my old drive like I said in my original post.

so you did... sorry Missed that. have you tried running diagnostics on it? If it isn't the wire... i'm afraid the problem may be becoming more expensive - like logic board... you've tested what I would....

 

[roontoon]

so you did... sorry Missed that. have you tried running diagnostics on it? If it isn't the wire... i'm afraid the problem may be becoming more expensive - like logic board... you've tested what I would....

Have run apple hardware test and have tried Tech tools pro. Nothing. Don't know if there is a test just for a logic board.

 

[Buckaye]

Have run apple hardware test and have tried Tech tools pro. Nothing. Don't know if there is a test just for a logic board.

hardware test "could" catch the logic board problem... but might not. Sorry man.. I'm at a loss.

 

[roontoon]

hardware test "could" catch the logic board problem... but might not. Sorry man.. I'm at a loss.

Me too. I am left scratching my head.

 

[Mr MM]

Me too. I am left scratching my head.

you are probably in for a mobo replacement, I had mine from the same model swapped 2x