No hard drive on MacBook air?

After you start from the recovery partition, choose utilities and disk utility and run repair disk on the startup partition. If it cannot find the startup partition, which is likely to be the case from your information, take the Air to an Apple store genius bar and have the techs find out why no startup partition is showing up.

Interesting...several years ago, well more like ten years ago, when solid state storage was just starting for large capacities as used in computers, the failure rate was very high relative to hard drives. Hard drives had progressed to a reliability of 100,000 hours between failures...a way of measuring longevity. Solid state was having severe problems with repeated writes to the same area causing loss of data failures. That has all progressed to today where SSD now has MTF, as used above, approaching hard drives. Yours must be one of those failing relatively early in life, four years.

Thanks for posting the results...very interesting to know, well as an engineer I find it interesting info :-)

Ralph

Oops, meant to say four months, not years...magic fingers today.

I have a MBAir I've only owned since end of April and the SSD died last week. To make matters worse the drive is "on backorder" according to Apple Canada, with no ETA. Far from impressed.

There have been a number of posts related to failure of the Toshiba SSDs in the 2012 MBAs...SSD become inaccessable with only the 32 KB SandForce portion available. This is a supplier issue Apple is working to resolve.

Hi Ralph,

Any idea whether that problem carried through to 2013 since Apple said they are not aware of any issues with the drives (as recently as two days ago) and I bought mine in late April of this year, direct from Apple.

Scott,

Check and see who manufactured the SSD in your Air...go to the apple at the left side of the menu bar, About This Mac, More Info, System Report, Hardware, SATA/SATA Express and you will get the chipset info, usually Intel, and then what is on the SATA bus...see if the SSD is from Toshiba.

Ralph

That is nt what I heard from a Genius at the apple store after my ssd drive failed. I was told not only are they backordered, that this is a known problem and they are hoping apple with cover it since my macbook air was just out of warentee. So Apple is just not admitting online that these are failing at a high rate. As a tech direcotr looking at a supplier for a one ot one program, this really makes me pause in considering apple as a reliable machine.

Foxbox7, your info plus Ralph's sounds about right because I asked what brand of drive failed and the tech at the local store told me it was a Toshiba (FWIW, it was not an actaul Apple Store but a Premium reseller that offers all services). I obviously couldn't check myself when Ralph first mentioned it because it was still "in the shop". I DID check the new one as soon as I got it and sure enough it is now a Samsung. I'm not typically one to subscribe to conspiracy theories, although that's probably a strong term for what foxbox7 is describing, but it certainly SEEMS like Apple is not being as forthcoming as they might be if the Toshiba SSD failures are not limited to the 2012 models if this is occuring frequently and especially since mine was only purchased end of April and I watched the shipping tracking from China so it was "hot off the press", not some old stock.

My hard drive on my MacBook Air, purchased in December, has failed. Sounds like the same issue being discussed here. Taking it to Genius Bar tomorrow. Were you able to save any of your files?

Same thing happened to my 6 month old MacBook Air. I am taking into local supplier tomorrow. No happy Jan!!