MacBook Pro 13″ April 2017 Hard Drive not recognised
Hello,
I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, 2 TBT3) purchased in April 2017. Its hard drive is not getting recognised during booting.
Have tried various options to boot the Macbook viz. using
- DiskUtility. Booting using Option+Command+R etc.
- Installed MacOS Monterrey - thinking its a good old stable version for this old Mac - on a USB drive and used the USB drive to boot the Macbook. It only shows the External USB Drive but not the Internal HDD.
- Installed Linux on the USB drive like above but the result was same.
- Used a thunderbolt cable to connect to a working Macbook. Though, I bought this cable on eBay and not on Apple store but has the thunderbolt symbol and looks genuine. After connecting, the non-working Macbook shows a thunderbolt symbol on the screen but on the working Macbook Finder, no sign of the HDD as an external drive in Location
Hoping its not a hardware failure but possibly a firmware issue. And hoping against hope that I will able to recover the data on it.
When the last time I was successfully able to boot the Macbook, the HDD was very close to being full.
Any guidance and help to resolve this issue is much appreciated.
Thank you very much.
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Here's the location of the custom SSD drive Apple uses in your system as well in Step 12 MacBook Pro 13" Function Keys Late 2016 Teardown.
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