Hi everyone, thanks in advance for your wisdom on this.
I have an old workhorse, 17" Macbook Pro mid-2010 (model A1297). It's been VERY sluggish for a week or two, so I freed up some memory, ran Disk Utility and OnyX functions - it found a bunch of stuff to repair and on a final kernel cache cleanup, it froze. When I restarted it I had the dreaded "folder with a question mark".
Starting in recovery mode couldn't find the startup disk, or the HDD at all. Currently running off a clone which is fast and fine, but sadly a few months old so missing my latest work.
The wise old internet seems to suggest it could be a HDD cable problem, which seems easy enough to replace. But I'm wondering if it's worth going through this or whether it's more likely my whole hard drive is shot, given the problems I had with it earlier.
I'm probably going to bite the bullet at get a new one soon anyway (this latest brush with death has been scary) but if there's a chance of recovering my last few month's work and/or saving this machine I'd like to give it a go.
Thanks so much guys.
Charla
I have an old workhorse, 17" Macbook Pro mid-2010 (model A1297). It's been VERY sluggish for a week or two, so I freed up some memory, ran Disk Utility and OnyX functions - it found a bunch of stuff to repair and on a final kernel cache cleanup, it froze. When I restarted it I had the dreaded "folder with a question mark".
Starting in recovery mode couldn't find the startup disk, or the HDD at all. Currently running off a clone which is fast and fine, but sadly a few months old so missing my latest work.
The wise old internet seems to suggest it could be a HDD cable problem, which seems easy enough to replace. But I'm wondering if it's worth going through this or whether it's more likely my whole hard drive is shot, given the problems I had with it earlier.
I'm probably going to bite the bullet at get a new one soon anyway (this latest brush with death has been scary) but if there's a chance of recovering my last few month's work and/or saving this machine I'd like to give it a go.
Thanks so much guys.
Charla