Is it possible that I'm missing something else that could be wrong, or do I need to just keep trying new cables? The problem is, I'd rather not be replacing the cable every few months if I can help it. Just to make sure, I pulled out the hard drive and have plugged it into my computer using an external hard drive reader and it seems to be working just fine (a little slow perhaps, but otherwise fine), so it must be the cable again.
This one seemed to be a much better quality when I installed it, but it's been three months and my poor little computer is having problems again. So I went ahead and ordered a new cable on Amazon, figuring that for $15 and what looked like an easy replacement, I couldn't do too much damage, and lo and behold, it worked! That cable lasted me a good six months, and when it started having the same problem, I figured that I was getting what I paid for - a $15 cable that wasn't meant to last all that long in the first place (in my defense, it totally looked that way when I received it as well - bent in weird places and it didn't fit perfectly).įiguring that I should try and find a better quality cable, I ordered one from iFixit for $45. After a lot of research, I concluded that it must have been the hard drive cable that was the problem, not the hard drive itself. I have a 13in mid-2012 macbook pro that has served me well until about 9 months ago when it would start up with the flashing "?" folder (unless I held it at the right angle for some reason).
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