MBP with EVO 850 failed

[conamor]

Hi,

We were recently working in audacity on the MBP and it suddenly started to skip the song and then problem with the application (was saying something about damaged audacity installation). Downloaded a newer version to test, something asked me to change my password because that was not space anymore in the keychain? something about that then it had to reboot for some reason. I had to enter my App Store password since I had changed it the day before on another device.

Could that audacity file be corrupted with malicious file? and then it had me reboot, tried to login with my password, it was not taking it. tried several times, tried appstore password, same thing. rebooted. now the username was empty. I tried to enter the username and password, failed. I decided to format and restore from time capsule time machine backup.

Now the EVO 850 won't format... It says it is been used, I used several commands with diskutil, force, unmount but no luck.

Does anyone know what could have happened? Are there any ways to resurrect that SSD?

Thanks

edit: it was downloaded from the official site, in case someone is asking , I also redownloaded on a PC, the Mac version and uploaded it to virus total but it came out clean, for now

It could also be a bad block on the ssd, I might try to take it out and format it. It’s 2011 and I installed the ssd.

Edit: i remove it, exfat it in windows 10 successfully. Installed it again in the mbp, same issue. The mbp wont format it...

 

[keysofanxiety]

Hi,

We were recently working in audacity on the MBP and it suddenly started to skip the song and then problem with the application (was saying something about damaged audacity installation). Downloaded a newer version to test, something asked me to change my password because that was not space anymore in the keychain? something about that then it had to reboot for some reason. I had to enter my App Store password since I had changed it the day before on another device.

Could that audacity file be corrupted with malicious file? and then it had me reboot, tried to login with my password, it was not taking it. tried several times, tried appstore password, same thing. rebooted. now the username was empty. I tried to enter the username and password, failed. I decided to format and restore from time capsule time machine backup.

Now the EVO 850 won't format... It says it is been used, I used several commands with diskutil, force, unmount but no luck.

Does anyone know what could have happened? Are there any ways to resurrect that SSD?

Thanks

edit: it was downloaded from the official site, in case someone is asking , I also redownloaded on a PC, the Mac version and uploaded it to virus total but it came out clean, for now

It could also be a bad block on the ssd, I might try to take it out and format it. It’s 2011 and I installed the ssd.

Edit: i remove it, exfat it in windows 10 successfully. Installed it again in the mbp, same issue. The mbp wont format it...

I suspect SATA cable (if it's a 13" or 15") and almost certainly graphics failure if it's 15" or 17". The Radeongate also affects OS installs/boots.

 

[conamor]

I suspect SATA cable (if it's a 13" or 15") and almost certainly graphics failure if it's 15" or 17". The Radeongate also affects OS installs/boots.

Wait, so my SATA cable became defective? This must be rare! It is a MBP Pro 2011, 13in. Would you suggest I get my hands on a new cable?

Edit: Would that work? https://www.amazon.ca/COHK-Brand-Dr...pID=314DFyamxhL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
or https://www.amazon.ca/MMOBIEL-Repla...pID=41QYNmgBPgL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

I just bought the second one

 

[keysofanxiety]

Wait, so my SATA cable became defective? This must be rare! It is a MBP Pro 2011, 13in. Would you suggest I get my hands on a new cable?

Edit: Would that work? https://www.amazon.ca/COHK-Brand-Dr...pID=314DFyamxhL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
or https://www.amazon.ca/MMOBIEL-Repla...pID=41QYNmgBPgL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

I just bought the second one

Yeah that should be fine. SATA cable has a huge failure rate on the cMBPs as they tend to corrode from air & dust.

 

[conamor]

Yeah that should be fine. SATA cable has a huge failure rate on the cMBPs as they tend to corrode from air & dust.

Thank you!