SSD PROBLEM: unable to reinstall osx and also failed in backup recovery.

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SSD PROBLEM: unable to reinstall osx and also failed in backup recovery.

Yesterday my MacBook Pro 2011 suddenly got hanged and freeze. And I have to restart system by hard shutdown. Then I faced this problem every time. I reset nvram but it did not work . Then I thought May be it's corrupt operating system I tried to reinstall new osx maverick from recovery mode but system freeze again during osx downloading process. I tried this 2 more times but the same problem occurred. Afterwards I deleted all ssd drive data in partitions but when I tried to unmount and delete the partitions here I was failed in unmounting partitions. But I deleted all data from all partitions.after this I tried again to reinstall osx but system hung after sometime. I also tried to recover from my time machine backup but the same problem happened and my system got freeze and I have to hard shutdown. I also did hardware diagnostic test which showed everything ok. Now I am realizing that my SSD got corrupt. Could you please help me what I should consider that can fix my problem. I also tried fsck and verify and repair the disk.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Apr 5, 2014 1:50 PM

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Melophage

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Apr 5, 2014 3:21 PM in response to Devbird

Devbird,

are you still able to boot into Recovery mode? If so, select Utilities from the menu bar and run Terminal from there. In the Terminal window, give it the following commands, one per line, separating each command by pressing the Return key at the end of each line:

diskutil list

diskutil cs list

mount

Please include in your reply the full output from these commands.

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Devbird Author

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Apr 6, 2014 3:38 AM in response to Melophage

Actually I have deleted every thing including partitions from Ubuntu cd and then tried to install Ubuntu but again Ubuntu installation also failed with error message that said its because of hard drive problem or it's cable issue. The I restart again and went to the disk utilities and check my ssd it was completely formated with its partitions by Ubuntu cd. I then again creat a single partition and reinstall osx but downloading stopped after 10 percent. I don't either it's ssd fault or the cable cable.

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Devbird Author

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Apr 7, 2014 10:01 AM in response to Melophage

Could you please help either it's ssd problem or it's cable is damaged. My ssd sometimes able to download osx 10% and sometimes 30 percent.

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Melophage

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Apr 7, 2014 11:52 AM in response to Devbird

Devbird,

both of those are hardware problems, so I’m unable to help with those. If it’s a SSD problem, then get a replacement SSD. If it’s a damaged cable, then get a replacement cable. If you get a SATA-to-USB or SATA-to-FireWire adapter, and boot from your SSD externally using Startup Manager, that should tell you if the SSD is the problem (if the SSD doesn’t work externally) or if the cable is the problem (if the SSD does work externally).

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Devbird Author

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Apr 10, 2014 6:35 AM in response to Melophage

I have installed new ssd 250 GB from Samsung and it has solved my problem. It was corrupt SSD in MacBook Pro late 2011 not the damaged sata cable. The old SSD corrupted within 2 years.

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