I think my MacBook Air SSD is dead. Help me.

[Brawlzapper]

My MacBook Air SSD died, or at least I believe it did. I was using my MacBook air (mid 2013) and all of a sudden my Mac freezes, I didn’t know what to do so I just pressed the power button and my Mac restarted with a folder with a question mark.


After googling the issue, I tried resetting PRAM, booted into safe mode, nothing worked. Then I tried to boot into recovery and connected my time machine drive to restore from the backup. The recovery booted from the internet and I couldn’t find my boot drive in the disk utility. Now I think it’s a dead SSD.


I bought this in August of 2013, so it’s over 4 years old. Is there anything that can be done ?


I am really tight on budget and seeing on the internet that it could cost me somewhere north of 600 USD is scary. I live in India.

 

[Audit13]

Does the Macbook boot properly from an external drive?

Did you try removing and re-seating the SSD?

If it is the SSD, this would be a cheaper fix: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/upgrading-2013-2014-macbook-pro-ssd-to-m-2-nvme.2034976/

 

[interessiert]

I had 2 times my MBA 13" 2010 crashing - Following procedure was successful both times (step by step till success - last time 1 year ago):
1. TM-Backup (but not used, just for security reason)
2. Drive automatization with proper OnyX (Titanium) - version (nearly ALL options checked)
3. Start with cmd and r till apple - disk repair (HD utility at bottom)
4. Start with cmd and r till apple - reinstall macOS (deletion of HD - needs internet connection)

Good luck!