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Friph

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jun 14, 2018
11
0
budapest
I dont know if im in right forum rn!
If no im sorry,if yes then:
Hi masters,
Last week i got the famouse question mark folder,
So i tried to format my ssd,but i cant verify or repair or even mount the drive
So i booted on GParted live usb,
I got an error i need to create new partition table (as its missing or damaged)
How long it take to make new partition table? Its around 1 hour and still nothing....
Anyone know what can be the problem?
 

Mikael H

macrumors 6502a
Sep 3, 2014
864
539
I dont know if im in right forum rn!
If no im sorry,if yes then:
Hi masters,
Last week i got the famouse question mark folder,
So i tried to format my ssd,but i cant verify or repair or even mount the drive
So i booted on GParted live usb,
I got an error i need to create new partition table (as its missing or damaged)
How long it take to make new partition table? Its around 1 hour and still nothing....
Anyone know what can be the problem?

Creating a new partition table should be near-instantaneous on a healthy system.

If you get a “flashing question mark folder” on bootup and you haven’t done anything that should cause your boot filesystem to become corrupt, chances are high your disk is shot. Even if you would manage to get it running again after a reinstallation, I would never trust a disk again after it had shown this behavior. If you’ve still got a machine where the disks are replacable, do so. Otherwise start looking for another machine.
 
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