ivan2012mis

Q: My Macintosh HD is gone, builtin Flash storage also missing.

I have a Macbook Retina, and something incredibly disturbing happened. I wanted to boot to a USB stick, so I went into recovery mode, but instead got taken to Internet recovery mode. I waited for that to load, but immediately restarted my computer. However I was greeted with a flashing folder with a question mark. Using recovery mode I entered into disk utility, but my Macintosh HD folder was missing, and the diskutil commands told the same story. I managed to boot up using a USB drive, and the system information and diskutility both show the absence of macintosh HD and my builtin 500gb flash storage.

 

What can I do to get back my storage?

MacBook, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Posted on Jan 26, 2016 8:55 AM

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Q: My Macintosh HD is gone, builtin Flash storage also missing.

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  • by my ginger,

    my ginger my ginger Jan 27, 2016 12:51 PM in response to ivan2012mis
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    Jan 27, 2016 12:51 PM in response to ivan2012mis

    Normally you would insert the usb stick and then hold down the option key. Then click on the usb and boot to it. What exactly did you do? Internet recovery is. Command Option R.  Command R would go to the recovery partition of your drive, if there. Did you have a reason for wanting to boot from the usb stick? ( No hard drive or built in 500GB flash storage). Are you referring to the flash drive as the only drive, or do you have a hard drive caddy in place of an optical drive?