About three or four months ago, my MacBook Pro 13" (2009) decided that it no longer wanted to read internal hard drives. After much poking around, I figured that it wasn't the HDD but the motherboard failing to read/identify this.
So I thought ok, I'll just boot from a USB HDD for a bit, putting what was once my internal hard drive into a cage and hooking it up via USB.
Until last night, this worked perfectly fine, it booted a bit slower sure, but it ran perfectly once the OS was loaded.
Last night, after 20 to 30 minutes, the hard drive would simply cut out. The enclosure's light would still be lit, so it was still getting power through the USB connection, but the HDD wasn't spinning inside the cage. Switching the laptop on and off revived it, as did leaving it on and unplugging and plugging in the USB, but the laptop wouldn't read it off of this.
I would appreciate any thoughts, theories and fixes from you guys, as I am at a loss.
Many thanks,
Fryingpan
So I thought ok, I'll just boot from a USB HDD for a bit, putting what was once my internal hard drive into a cage and hooking it up via USB.
Until last night, this worked perfectly fine, it booted a bit slower sure, but it ran perfectly once the OS was loaded.
Last night, after 20 to 30 minutes, the hard drive would simply cut out. The enclosure's light would still be lit, so it was still getting power through the USB connection, but the HDD wasn't spinning inside the cage. Switching the laptop on and off revived it, as did leaving it on and unplugging and plugging in the USB, but the laptop wouldn't read it off of this.
I would appreciate any thoughts, theories and fixes from you guys, as I am at a loss.
Many thanks,
Fryingpan