I was really scratching my head my google searches led me to finding it was not an uncommon issue on older computers where it was the result of a bad cable from the hard drive to the mother board, but this model's HD is directly soldered to the MB I believe.īased on this apple resource: Startup key combinations for Mac - Apple Support, I tinkered around and briefly got my internal hard drive detected. OS Installs didn't have a disk to install.
To summarize my whole story: the internal hard drive couldn't be detected, even in Disk Utility. Tried again and again, couldn't boot and still had the question mark folder.
I rebooted and I got a flashing question mark folder. A software update notification came up and I gave it a go ahead. Just unpackaged an early 2016 silver Macbook (Model A1534).
