2014 MBP Retina
2.5 GHz Intel Core i7
Internal SSD (a replacement by OWC)
OS X 10.11.5 (El Capitan)
My macbook froze while in use. The mouse wouldn't even respond, so I did a force shut-down (holding down the power button).
After restart, I got the flashing box with question mark, indicating it could not find a boot drive.
I restarted in recovery mode and ran disk utility. It showed nothing but the recovery partition.
I shut down and swapped in a clone. The mac started fine and functioned fine with the clone.
I put the original SSD in an enclosure and tried to mount via USB. It didn’t mount. Disk Utility couldn’t see it.
I ran diskutil in terminal and it also couldn’t see it.
After about 15 minutes or so (while doing the above steps) I got a prompt that the connected drive couldn’t be read and was aksed if I would like to initialize it. I said no.
In system profiler, in the USB section, the enclosure shows as attached, but there is no information about the drive.
There are some user files I would like to recover.
Considering that the drive won’t even mount at this point, should my first step be through Testdisk, DDrescue, or PhotoRec?
Can any of these be run without installing Homebrew? The current version of Homebrew available doesn’t support OS X 10.11.5. All the install instructions and tutorials I’ve found say to use Homebrew.
2014 Macbook Pro Retina internal drive failure
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Re: 2014 Macbook Pro Retina internal drive failure
If your Mac does not even recognize the device, no recovery software can work. You will have to contact a professional lab for recovery.