Q: Start up disk cannot be located? White screen of DOOM!!
Hi guys, wondering if someone can give me a few pointers...
So yesterday I wanted to do some printing so I plugged in the printer USB to my MacBook (2012) and all of a sudden I got the rainbow wheel come up. I thought "no problem" just having a minor blip, but then the whole thing froze, I left it for a few minutes before deciding to force restart by holding down the power. Then, when i turned it back on all i got was the white screen... I left it 10 minutes but as nothing happened I turned it off and then on again and got the white screen with the grey folder with a question mark in it. I know that this means the macbook can't find or locate the bootable drive as after turning it on and off again it went from a white screen to a black terminal like screen saying so.
I opened up os x recovery by using command + r, but the only disk present was the disk0 with "mac os x base" present. when I tried to find "Macintosh HD" I couldn't. I went into the startup disk area to try and boot up from the startup disk manually but nothing appeared.
I've tried booting in safe mode and doing the old "shift+control+option+power for 4 seconds" thing and then powering whilst holding r+p command and alt but nothing happened...
Any help would be hugely appreciated...
I thought i'd ask before I take the plunge and take it into an apple store.
Thanks
Nathan
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
Posted on Sep 23, 2016 1:00 AM