Im having some issues and im trying to determine which part I should go for, I have a mbp 13 early 2011
1) the HDD wont boot from the HDD bay, but it works on target disk mode in a usb enclosure that I have
2) I have some spare HDDs here, tried 3 of them and none are detected in disk utility on the ML install, all of them are working fine
So do I have a bad mobo or sata cable?
Hardware test passes fine, except the HDD isnt detected
if there are anymore tests or other apps that I should try please let me now
Im leaning towards the sata cable is bad, that would make the 2nd cable in this mbp history
How this happened?
1) I was doing some work and suddenly the mbp stopped responding
2) I left it be for some minutes and had to do a hard reset, since the response was so slow that it wouldnt even let me restart the machine
3) after that it just gave me the folder icon on start up
any help is appreciated thanks
1) the HDD wont boot from the HDD bay, but it works on target disk mode in a usb enclosure that I have
2) I have some spare HDDs here, tried 3 of them and none are detected in disk utility on the ML install, all of them are working fine
So do I have a bad mobo or sata cable?
Hardware test passes fine, except the HDD isnt detected
if there are anymore tests or other apps that I should try please let me now
Im leaning towards the sata cable is bad, that would make the 2nd cable in this mbp history
How this happened?
1) I was doing some work and suddenly the mbp stopped responding
2) I left it be for some minutes and had to do a hard reset, since the response was so slow that it wouldnt even let me restart the machine
3) after that it just gave me the folder icon on start up
any help is appreciated thanks