tenolz.blogg.se - Internal hard drive not showing up in disk utility

Ran safe mode (Hold Shift key on startup) - Didn't work, question mark folder still flashing.

Reset NVRAM (Hold CMD+,OPT+P+R) - Seemed to take a little while longer than normal than my 2011 MBP, but was successful in getting the second chime.

I was really scratching my head my google searches led me to finding it was not an uncommon issue on older computers where it was the result of a bad cable from the hard drive to the mother board, but this model's HD is directly soldered to the MB I believe.īased on this apple resource: Startup key combinations for Mac - Apple Support, I tinkered around and briefly got my internal hard drive detected. OS Installs didn't have a disk to install. To summarize my whole story: the internal hard drive couldn't be detected, even in Disk Utility. Tried again and again, couldn't boot and still had the question mark folder.

I rebooted and I got a flashing question mark folder. A software update notification came up and I gave it a go ahead. Just unpackaged an early 2016 silver Macbook (Model A1534).