Hey everyone,
I recently started refurbing on my old 2010 MBP and have run in to some problems.
First problem that I am having is the battery was bulging and pressing the trackpad up so that it would no longer click, but I have resolved that by simply removing the battery for now, and I intend to buy a cheap one on Amazon in the near future.
The second, and probably most pressing issue that I am facing is that the hard drive inside of the machine refuses to function. I would boot into the MacOS High Sierra installer, and it wouldn't even show up in the Disk Utility. I figured, oh well, I would be upgrading to an SSD anyways, so I went ahead and installed a spare 240GB SSD in the machine, and upon booting into Disk Utility from the installer USB, it saw the SSD no problem, so I went ahead and began to format it.... and ran into some troubles, giving me the error "error wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed". A quick search yielded me some information that points in the direction of a cable failure, specifically the SATA adapter cable that runs to the SSD/HDD.
I am hoping this is the cause, because it is extremely cheap compared to, say, a logic board repair, so I plan on ordering a new cable tonight. I just want some input as to whether there could be any other causes, or how common of an issue this is.
Furthermore, is there any way that I could prevent this issue from occurring again in the future? Some people suggested wrapping the cable in duct tape to prevent it from rubbing against other components, etc. but I really don't know whether to believe those posts, though I doubt it could hurt anything.
TIA all, I really appreciate it.
-S
I recently started refurbing on my old 2010 MBP and have run in to some problems.
First problem that I am having is the battery was bulging and pressing the trackpad up so that it would no longer click, but I have resolved that by simply removing the battery for now, and I intend to buy a cheap one on Amazon in the near future.
The second, and probably most pressing issue that I am facing is that the hard drive inside of the machine refuses to function. I would boot into the MacOS High Sierra installer, and it wouldn't even show up in the Disk Utility. I figured, oh well, I would be upgrading to an SSD anyways, so I went ahead and installed a spare 240GB SSD in the machine, and upon booting into Disk Utility from the installer USB, it saw the SSD no problem, so I went ahead and began to format it.... and ran into some troubles, giving me the error "error wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed". A quick search yielded me some information that points in the direction of a cable failure, specifically the SATA adapter cable that runs to the SSD/HDD.
I am hoping this is the cause, because it is extremely cheap compared to, say, a logic board repair, so I plan on ordering a new cable tonight. I just want some input as to whether there could be any other causes, or how common of an issue this is.
Furthermore, is there any way that I could prevent this issue from occurring again in the future? Some people suggested wrapping the cable in duct tape to prevent it from rubbing against other components, etc. but I really don't know whether to believe those posts, though I doubt it could hurt anything.
TIA all, I really appreciate it.
-S
