MP 1,1-5,1 No bootable device

[Itconnects]

I think I pulled my ssd drive before the computer was fully shut. Now it says “no bootable disk... “ on the Mac part. Tried many times to boot into it, but it doesn’t work. I saw two options Macintosh ssd and Windows. The Mac one won’t boot. When I take out the windows drive all I see is that “no bootable disk”

I checked my ssd on a ssd card reader where my OS was and it said it’s at 1tb capacity available which obviously it’s not.

Did I lose everything? Can these recovery services get it back. Had some logic sessions from the past couple days on there?

 

[tommy chen]

boot into recovery and use diskutility for repair

 

[Itconnects]

This is what the card reader says. How do I boot into recovery...? From a device that says no bootable disk? Thank you for your response!!
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I’ve been trying command R with no luck
Just booted in after multiple tries. Should I toss this drive after back up?!

 

[tommy chen]

cmd+r works in most cases only with a wired keyboard!

and with an PC keyboard the cmd key is the alt key

if the diskutility can't repair, than diskwarrior is an option

 

[Itconnects]

Ha probably why it didn’t work. I was using the windows key. Thanks

 

[sprague.rod]

You may not need to scrap the SSD it's the contents you damaged not the drive. Just erase, remap and reformat it.

 

[Itconnects]

You may not need to scrap the SSD it's the contents you damaged not the drive. Just erase, remap and reformat it.

My work around is to press option and choose the drive even though it’s the only drive in the bay. It boots back into Mac. Even after performing first aid, Problem still persists. What do I do?
Basically if I start the drive normally it says no bootable drive. I’m wondering if no bootable drive means that by default it’s trying to get into the windows side for some reason, but there’s no other drive in the bay. All my data seems to still be there

 

[MIKX]

Itconnects

It would help to know. .

1. Which Mac Pro you have.

2. Which Make & model SSD you have.

It looks like you are using an external OWC Voyager drive dock

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Is the Voyager connected to a PCIe USB 3.0 card?
If so does the USB 3.0 card have a SATA power socket?
If the USB 3.0 card has a SATA connector is the SATA cable connected ?

Try putting the drive into one of the cMP onboard SATA ports.

HINT : Make a cMP SIGNATURE in your Macrumors member profile. We are not mind readers

My signature is at the bottom of this post.

 

[Itconnects]

MIKX

Will do that in my signature.

You missed the part where I said I used a card reader to check if my data was missing.

This is an SSD 2.5 in the drive bay. This is where the problem is happening. All drive bays

 

[tommy chen]

did the SSD plug into the computer or another one via USB?

if it was on another computer, then only a data rescue can help, or even with diskwarrior the directory can be created again.

if it was this computer, then try to repair (first aid) in recovery mode and reinstall the system from here.

 

[Macsonic]

There was a time my boot drive could not boot up, I would use Diskwarrior to fix the problem. Diskwarrior successfully fixed the issue and my boot drive was up and running. https://www.alsoft.com/

 

[Itconnects]

There was a time my boot drive could not boot up, I would use Diskwarrior to fix the problem. Diskwarrior successfully fixed the issue and my boot drive was up and running. https://www.alsoft.com/

I went to system preferences and selected the disk (even though it was already selected) and it’s booting normally

 

[DearthnVader]

I went to system preferences and selected the disk (even though it was already selected) and it’s booting normally

Glad you got it working, but just a note, if you see a black screen with no bootable drive message, you are booting into CSM mode for BootCamp.

 

[Snow Tiger]

Thank goodness things are better . Please keep in mind Apple does not have hot swappable drives in any of their products ( any more ) . When you add or remove drives , unplug your Mac first just to be on the safe side .

 

[Itconnects]

Glad you got it working, but just a note, if you see a black screen with no bootable drive message, you are booting into CSM mode for BootCamp.

Why would it be doing that?
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Thank goodness things are better . Please keep in mind Apple does not have hot swappable drives in any of their products ( any more ) . When you add or remove drives , unplug your Mac first just to be on the safe side .

Yeah it was done out of stupid impatience. Thanks

 

[DearthnVader]

Why would it be doing that?

Somehow the system got blessed to boot into legacy mode, or the first drive it found had an MBR boot sector with no boot loader.

Sometimes happens when you swap drives around.

 

[Itconnects]

Somehow the system got blessed to boot into legacy mode, or the first drive it found had an MBR boot sector with no boot loader.

Sometimes happens when you swap drives around.

Honestly was a blessing I got it back! I think you’re right because upon the first boot back it had all these Asian letters like the one you get with kernel panick before it booted in to mojave. Another reason you’re right about it being blessed was because the first time I pressed alt and selected the Mac disk it looked like it chose the disk but froze for like 10 minutes. I manually shut it down and it just wouldn’t boot after that. Then the 3rd time I tried alt select it worked. I think I’m going to get the rx580 for a fully supported system. My gtx 680 works great, and it’s nice to have a bootscreen, but I’m thinking it’s The weakest link here
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did the SSD plug into the computer or another one via USB?

if it was on another computer, then only a data rescue can help, or even with diskwarrior the directory can be created again.

if it was this computer, then try to repair (first aid) in recovery mode and reinstall the system from here.

Will do. It was on this computer
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There was a time my boot drive could not boot up, I would use Diskwarrior to fix the problem. Diskwarrior successfully fixed the issue and my boot drive was up and running. https://www.alsoft.com/

Did you lose anything, or it keeps your files and the boot. That’s nice to know. After researching, it seems like SSDs are easy to recover after failure? Correct me if I’m wrong. Also, what happens after it’s run it’s course and dies. Can data be recovered ?

I have an SD card from ages ago in my Korg Triton extreme. I pulled out the card too fast before my keyboard shut off I guess that’s my MO. lost a bunch of sessions from a specific folder inside the Sd card. It was like a decade ago, but still haunts me lol. Can I use disk warrior to retrieve. The card was saving new info to a specific folder as I pulled it out, but deleted everything new and old