Disk Utility can't format SSD or repair- Help, Please! Pro's here's a challenge!

Is this a Macbook Pro or a Macbook Air. There is a recall on the 2012 MBA models for fault SSDs. Maybe your Mac falls under that recall.

If you can't partition or format it or erase and format it then the SSD has failed and will need to be replaced. There is much else you can do.

Longtallsally28

I was thinking that same thing but it said it only applied to MacBook Airs.

Not so,...any and all SSD can fail.

#1) Why does the computer not recognize SSD partitions? (i.e. revert to Disk0s1)

A likely failed SSD

#2) Is there a possible component within the computer causing the continued failure? ( Is there a diagram showing all the components within the MBP?)

Yes, the SSD controller on the SSD module

#3) What do I have to do to make this computer work?

Contact Apple for full free in shop diagnostic

peace 😊

I'm not sure if the same drive is used in both system. Is your mac a standard model or one with Retina screen. If a Retina screen it very well may use the same Toshiba drive that has failed in the Air model. I don't know of many people that would buy a Mac Retina with a 128GB drive (No disrespect towards you). So Apple might of used the same faulty Toshiba SSD in the ones that did get ordered with just a 128GB SSD. If it is the standard model and you got the SSD upgrade then it is a different drive. Whether it is a Toshiba or some other brand I have no idea.

Longtallsally28 wrote:

LowLuster,

I was thinking that same thing but it said it only applied to MacBook Airs. I've got a MacBook Pro, I was thinking that since my MBP was produced (mid-2012) there is a very good chance the same ssd could be in my MacBook. I'll call but I wonder why it won't work with a different ssd either?

They are one soldered piece, the entire SSD would be replaced if that was the case that your SSD is/has failed

peace

I have one more complete "desperation move" for you.

Sometimes SSD drives get so clogged with data they cannot move. They need to do an Internal Garbage Collect, but you keep asking for stuff, so they can't.

Try this:

Hold down the Alt Option key at Startup and ...

... walk away, for at least 20 minutes, preferably much more.

Then try again later. Once in a great while, they see that they are powered up and idle, do the required Garbage Collect, and recover.

Yes all the SSDs, in the retina and air models, plug into a socket and if it is a standard MBP it take a standard notebook size SSD. Same size and connections as the rotating HDD for notebooks.

Longtallsally28 wrote:

Plotinus,

I appreciate you answering my 3 questions. I am going go to the apple store, and get a diagnostic, but is it possible to replace the ssd module or the ssd controller in the event that those are bad?

Thank you guys both a lot!

earlier Macbook Pro uses a microSATA connector

2013 uses PCIe connector

Sorry to say but no, IMHO. It is the SSD, it has failed.

Longtallsally28 wrote:

Not the retina, just the standard MBP. So question would it be possible that the mobo, pram, or anything else could be causing the issue? I mean the computer starts and has the capability of going to basic osx utilities, so the computer doesn't seem to be fried. So if I replace the ssd, I shouldn't have any problem?

You're welcome. All the best to you.

Hi, I keep getting Disk utility error that keeps telling me to repair which I do and then get another error ssd regarding liabrary. Last week they erased my computer over the phone, but it seems worse, don't really know too much about all this, but my computer keeps freezing like I can barely use it sometimes. I have put another request to call in, Seems erasing the whole computer didn't help at all, my computer kept going black. Didn't know there was a recall I have a Mac Air 2012. Maybe, I should be taking it into the shop I just want to know as much information before I go. Thanks.

If you have a Mac Air 2012 model with 128GB SSDshould take it in.