Internal Hard Drive Failure Help!?

[Andrew92196]

So a few weeks ago I was trying to restore my MacBook Pro. After it restarted I wasn't able to reinstall OS X because it wouldn't let me select the Hard Drive. So eventually I got a My Passport to run OS X on it. But I can't get my Internal Hard Drive to work anymore. If you can help me fix this that would be great. Ive included some pictures that could possibly help with this.

Failed Hard Drive??
Tried booting MacBook Pro all that shows is a Folder with a Question mark.
Holding Command + R to boot into recovery. Disk Utility shows Internal Hard drive as “Media”
DISK UTILITY SHOWS
Disk Description MEDIA
Connection Bus SATA
Connection Type INTERNAL
Total Capacity 0 Bytes
Write Status READ/WRITE
S.M.A.R.T. Status NOT SUPPORTED
Partition Map Scheme UNFORMATTED

Got an External Hard Drive
Installed OS X on it, MacBooks Pro runs fine
Look in Disk Utility to try and erase and restore Internal Hard Drive
Internal Hard Drive (Media) everything is grayed out.
Can’t use First Aid, Erase, Partition, Raid, or Restore Tab.
Go into terminal
Tried diskutil unmountDisk disk0
Unmount of all volumes on disk0 was successful
Then do sudo diskutil eraseDisk HFS+ Media disk0
Started erase on disk0
Unmounting disk
Error: -69825: Wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed

Try erasing the disk with the different diskutil commands no luck
Then I find sudo fdisk –e /dev/disk0
fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
The signature for this MBR is invalid.
Would you like to initialize the partition table? [y] y
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk:*1> print
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 0/4/63 [0 sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
fdisk:*1> abort

THEN do the same thing with my internal hard drive disk
sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk1
fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk: 1> print
Disk: /dev/disk1 geometry: 121597/255/63 [1953458176 sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 1953458175] <Unknown ID>
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
fdisk: 1> abort

THEN I go back
sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk1
fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk: 1> print
Disk: /dev/disk1 geometry: 121597/255/63 [1953458176 sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 1953458175] <Unknown ID>
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
fdisk: 1> abort
Andrews-MacBook-Pro:~ AndrewHarris$ sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0
fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
The signature for this MBR is invalid.
Would you like to initialize the partition table? [y] y
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk:*1> edit 1
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
Partition id ('0' to disable) [0 - FF]: [0] (? for help) EE
Do you wish to edit in CHS mode? [n] y
BIOS Starting cylinder [0 - 4294967295]: [0] 1023
BIOS Starting head [0 - 3]: [0] 254
'254' is out of range.
BIOS Starting head [0 - 3]: [0] 254
'254' is out of range.
BIOS Starting head [0 - 3]: [0] 1
BIOS Starting sector [1 - 63]: [0] 63
BIOS Ending cylinder [0 - 4294967295]: [0] 1023
BIOS Ending head [0 - 3]: [0] 1
BIOS Ending sector [1 - 63]: [0] 63
fdisk:*1> print
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 0/4/63 [0 sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 257921 - 1] <Unknown ID>
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
fdisk:*1> disk
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 0/4/63 [0 sectors]
Change disk geometry? [n] y
BIOS Cylinders [1 - 1024]: [0] 1023
BIOS Heads [1 - 256]: [4] 254
BIOS Sectors [1 - 63]: [63] 63
fdisk:*1> write
Writing MBR at offset 0.
fdisk: 1> print
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 1023/254/63 [16370046 sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 257921 - 1] <Unknown ID>
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
fdisk: 1> quit
THEN I TYPE IN TERMINAL
sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0
fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
The signature for this MBR is invalid.
Would you like to initialize the partition table? [y] y
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk:*1> print
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 0/4/63 [0 sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
fdisk:*1>

 

[ibuyufo]

Go to this place and buy this

http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX100...TF8&qid=1425842021&sr=8-3&keywords=500+gb+ssd

Wait for it to come in, take a small screw driver and unscrew the bottom of your macbook pro. Take out screws from the plastic bar and carefully remove it. Now the next step requires you to be super duper extra careful when removing the drive from the cable as you don't want to break that cable!
Replace the drive and put everything back in reverse order.

 

[maflynn]

You need to replace the drive, if it failed and from the sounds of your post it has failed. I'd look to find a replacement, perhaps (depending on your model and upgrade plans) its time to switch to a SSD.

 

[orangezorki]

Please, please think yourself lucky (I hope!). The fact that you were restoring suggests that you have a backup of all your data. Recovering the data can be either more costly than an entire new machine or completely impossible.

I would not trust the drive as far as I can throw it, even if you can get it running again. Use the opportunity to get a SSD, and reap the benefits. Even if money is short, just get a small one and external 1-2TB USB powered drives are dirt cheap at the moment.

 

[MacRobert10]

You have damage at the startup of the drive. Been there, done that.

I had a drive with the exact same sorts of problems. Nothing would mount it but diskutil could at least tell it was a drive. I used this thing to test it:

http://scsc-online.com/Scannerz.html

When I started Scannerz it showed as what they call a "null drive" which means unrecognized/strange OS/never formatted etc. etc. Just the drive shows up in the list of drives with no volumes underneath it. I scanned it as a primary drive and it immediately started getting about a gigabyte's worth of errors.

I was hoping maybe I could fix it somehow using some of the very techniques you used but it was hopeless.