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Hard Drive Issues (Both new and old)

I'm trapped in a HDD nightmare with my MacBook Pro mid-2012.

I updated to Yosemite 10.10.3 (with the Photos app). A couple of days after the update, I was watching a movie on my TV screen via HDMI. In the middle of the movie I removed the HDMI cable from the MacBook Pro and everything freezes. I forced shut down (Note: My HDD was encrypted). After I forced shut down, I tried to turn on and the loading screen would never stop loading - like, 14 hours stuck with the progress bar. Since I have backups, I decided to access DU and format my HDD. I tried everything. For real. Every command line I could type on Terminal to format, repair, erase and/or partition. I read almost every issue-related questions on the forums and stack exchange groups for a week (even posted my issue here: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/181090/erasing-and-partitioning-hard-dr ive-from-internet-recovery?noredirect=1#comment215695_181090).

So, I decided that it was a HDD failure and bought a new one.

I bought the Seagate 1TB SSHD Hybrid - ST1000LM014. Installed the new fresh disk and guess what? All those same problems again. I´m not able to restore from Time Machine because it doesn't recognize the disk in the restore page. But the disk is recognized in the DU. When I try to erase or partition the new SSHD, the same old errors: File system formatter failed. Yes, I tired GUID Partition Table, all of the security options, etc. 😟


Please. Any light that you can throw at this issue, I'll be very grateful for. BTW, the new SSHD is recognized and the SMART Status says: Verified.

Any ideas on *** is going on?


Thanks in advance!

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), i7 8GB RAM, late-2012 13'' screen.

Posted on Apr 29, 2015 1:47 PM

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Apr 29, 2015 2:54 PM in response to HMohr

More additional info:


Booted from my external HDD which contains Time Machine Backups. In Utilities I opened Terminal and typed:


-bash-3.2# diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ SSHD_1TB /dev/disk0

Started erase on disk0

Unmounting disk

Creating the partition map

Waiting for the disks to reappear

Formatting disk0s2 as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with name SSHD_1TB

newfs_hfs: WriteBuffer: pwrite(3, 0x1071ea000, 1048576, 0): Input/output error

newfs_hfs: write (sector 0): Invalid argument

Mounting disk

Could not mount disk0s2 with name (null) after erase

Error: -69832: File system formatter failed


😕

May 5, 2015 8:19 PM in response to HMohr

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FWIW you did everything reasonable and more. A Genius Bar visit is justified to diagnose what may be a hardware problem, possibly related to removing the HDMI cable – which should not have caused any damage.


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You might try running Apple Hardware Test but if it concludes "no trouble found" that's all it means. It doesn't mean trouble doesn't exist. Anything other than a definitive report of a specific failure is not conclusive.

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