I bought a new hard drive cable and then the problem was solved. I suspected that it was a linkage between the drive and the laptop that was at fault, and suggested Haris try to swap the cable. I’ve had many hard drive-and more recently, SSD-failures, and in most cases they won’t get to this state if the drive is bad. I waited several hours and the time still keeps increasing.”
He couldn’t erase, it either: “The bar loads, but it just keeps loading and the ‘estimated time’ just keeps increasing. Couldn’t boot and couldn’t repair it in Disk Utility.” Haris had kept his 2012 MacBook Pro’s original hard drive, so he swapped it in place, and it wouldn’t boot. Reader Haris wrote with a drive problem: “My Samsung SSD stopped working suddenly earlier today.
