I recently had my macbook pro hard drive crash and replaced it. I have an older Macbook a1181 that I used to install the lion software on the new one so I know it works. I put it in the pro, and still has the question mark. I put the MacBook a1181 hard drive in the pro and it works. What do I do?
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Hard drive crashed- replaced with new one- still get blinking folder
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I've seen this before. The hard drive cable needs to be replaced anyway. If the new drive works in another machine and isn't anything strange like a strange 3rd party SSD, it is likely the cable is bad since it's being used differently by a new type of drive. An apple store will replace the part pretty quickly for about $15 plus labor.
I have a hard drive that works in my MacBook Pro though. Doesn't that mean the hard drive cable is good?
Why didn't you install the OS using the MBP?
When you hold down "Option" during bootup you don't see the HD? Can you boot from the OSX install disk and select the startup disk?
When you hold down "Option" during bootup you don't see the HD? Can you boot from the OSX install disk and select the startup disk?
Is there a reason you installed the OS onto the hard drive before you moved it over to the MBP? There is a chance that it is your HD cable..
The cable is tied to the machine, not the hard drive, what part of that don't you understand?
I'm just wondering why a certain hard drive works on my pro and others don't. If that one hard drive works how could it be the cable?
Did you format the new HDD to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) before installing the OS?
You worded that poorly as that really was not what I had understood from your posts.
The hard drive may have died in the process of being put in.
I sorry about that. It was not my intention. I put the working hard drive back in my other macbook and it works. MacBook Pro only let's one of my hard drives work but i feel like it is super slow now