Hard drive not recognized - cable?

UPDATE: New cable arrived. Installed and works great. Applications are faster to open and not freezing like they were before. Let's hope this one lasts!

Mine was a faulty cord. Tech person fixing it says Apple is aware of the problem but they choose not to address the problem. Gonna cost me $50 to repair. BS if you ask me. My mac is less than 2 years old!

I am writing this from the Apple Store in Conestoga Mall, Waterloo.

My MacBook Pro 13" Mid-2012 started acting weird Friday night.

Saturday morning, it was locking up just trying to boot to desktop.

By mid-day, it wouldn't boot to login screen.

I tried rebooting, safe booting, shift+Command+V booting, nothing. It would not get to the login screen.

Genius bar appointment right now, the diagnostics show that everything is okay, but the hard drive diagnostic got hung and was not responding.

So, according to the Genius, there is a common problem with Hard Drive cables.

I asked the question, if this is a common problem, why not issue a recall?

Anyway, something like $60 later, and I am sincerely hoping that the problem is fixed in a few minutes here.

I have already looked at prices on new SSD's and I am not looking forward to that if that is the real problem.

😟 It's been a flawless machine for the past 14 months...

Wow, it seems a lot of mid-2012 MacBooks are screwing up just a few of months out of warranty. Mine was just 16 months old. Totally ridiculous and unacceptable.

Hoping it's just the cable for you ninjavwc.

I own an early 2011 MacBook Pro. It had the same issue last year at about this time. After spending the money to have the sata cable replaced, it worked for almost a year. As I sat down to write a paper today, the all familiar dark keyboard and frozen screen reappeared.

This is certainly a quality control issue with the MacBook Pro line of products.

Since I have projects to work on this week and research to get ready for publication, I don't have time to wait for the replacement cable to arrive. So, off to the Apple store tomorrow.

I'm hoping that they replace it for free this time or I'll be pretty disappointed.

I wonder if there is some way to reinforce the cable so this will no longer be an issue.

TLDR, Second time having the SATA cable die in my MBP. Wondering why Appple won't do the right thing and issue a recall.

Apple doing the "right thing". Ha! That's great! 🙂

$95 to fix. Apple needs to fix this problem!

I have a 2010 macbook pro. This problem has happened to me three times now! Every year since I've owned it. I've had the cable replaced by Apple twice, they waived the labour fee previously. Now I went to the Genius Bar and they wanted to charge $60+ to have it replaced. I'm going to fix it myself this time, they're clearly not doing a very good job of this. I really hope that they issue some sort of recall or at least acknowledge that there is a problem.

I've also got a mid-2012 macbook pro. The cable failed the first time after about 15 months (so not longer after the warranty ended) and now a second time 93 days after the first one was replaced. The warranty on replacement parts is, of course 90 days. I'm sensing a pattern here. I took it to a genius bar the first time but to a certified repair place with a 6 month warranty (although a much more expensive repair) the second time. I love my mac and never had any problems with my previous one (which I used for four years), but if this keeps up and they continue to refuse to adress the problem, then I am done with buying apple computers.

Same problem here on a MBP 13 mid 2009...

Replaced the cable, booted OK, but on restarting... the problem was back!

I use a SSD drive and a optibay to a second drive. But after some time using the two drives, I've to use the SSD on the optibay, because the original place to the drive doesn't work.

What can I do?

I´ve had my mbp mid 2009 since march 2010 and yesterday It started with this issue. Now, I installed Mavericks on the same hd as an external, and connected the one that came with the mbp internally.

Funny thing is the hd doesn´t show in finder, but it does in disk utility (and it takes ages to do anything). Is it possible that the cable is kinda ******, but it can detect the hd at the same time?

*confusing*

Same problem.

Flashing question mark. No Apple care left. No genuis bar appoinments for over a week. Apple would not sell me the part. Found one from a specialist for £20. Installed it and sorted the issue.

2nd time it has happened and it is only 18 months old. Very poor Apple, very poor. :-(

I am also the facing the same issue. I have a mid-2010 macbook pro.

Does anyone have any idea whether I can use the cable from my other laptop (lenovo)?

Im a Apple Tech Support in Argentina.....

Is a very common problem that sata cables in MBP 2009, 2010 & 2011 goes bad!! (especially in 13" models)....

I repair a lot of Macs with this issue....

My recomendation: First take out Hard Disk & test it on an external caddy.... if works ok, buy the cheapest Sata Cable that sells on ebay & replace it (very easy job)

Just dropped $140 getting my hard drive cable replaced on my 1.5 year-old MBP. Thanks, Apple! I'm disgusted reading how common this problem is.