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Mac Mini hard drive issue

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chuckd83

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Jul 12, 2010
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I have a Mac Mini (late 2012) that has a Crucial SSD 1TB hard drive. Last week, the Mac rebooted and got stuck in a boot loop. A computer store diagnosed it and said the hard drive was the culprit. They removed the hard drive and tried plugging it into another Mac using a SATA-USB adapter in order to extract the data. Once they plugged it in, it forced that Mac to reboot.

Has anyone come across this problem?
 
chuckd83 said:
I have a Mac Mini (late 2012) that has a Crucial SSD 1TB hard drive. Last week, the Mac rebooted and got stuck in a boot loop. A computer store diagnosed it and said the hard drive was the culprit. They removed the hard drive and tried plugging it into another Mac using a SATA-USB adapter in order to extract the data. Once they plugged it in, it forced that Mac to reboot.

Has anyone come across this problem?
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1. That's not a hard drive. Your title is confusing because an SSD is not a hard drive.

2. I've seen this issue with certain borked macOS installs, fixed by a reinstallation of macOS. I'm not sure if it's the same issue.
 
I had a similar experience with a OWC 2.5" SATA SSD in a 2011 MBP. There was a day that it would not successfully boot a 2011 MBP. I took the SSD out of the MBP, put it in an external enclosure. Just plugging in the external SSD into another MAC caused a crash.
 
CoastalOR said:
I had a similar experience with a OWC 2.5" SATA SSD in a 2011 MBP. There was a day that it would not successfully boot a 2011 MBP. I took the SSD out of the MBP, put it in an external enclosure. Just plugging in the external SSD into another MAC caused a crash.
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What was your solution? Just chunk the drive and lose the data?
 
chuckd83 said:
What was your solution? Just chunk the drive and lose the data?
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I had a recent clone on a external HDD of that SSD that failed. The failed SSD was out of warranty. I installed a new SSD, booted from the external HDD (slow, but doable), formatted the new internal SSD, cloned the system/data on the external HDD to to the new internal SSD. I destroyed the failed SSD with a drill & hammer. No data was lost.
 
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