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need help with mac not booting

Tottenstein
By Tottenstein
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i have an 2012 mac which has an ssd in it. it resently stopped booting so i tried fixing it and never got the ssd to show up unless i use an usb to sata converter. that leaded me to believe that the sata cable was broken in the mac but i tried installing mac os on an old hard drive and that worked perfectly.  im just trying to figure out why it doesnt want to work when connected to sata 

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It could still be the SATA cable. SSDs are harder on these cables than harddrives are.

 

Swap the cable for a new one and test the SSD on it again.

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