Macbook Air - no disk found :-(

[Donnie]

So the wife has a macbook air thats ooolllld! We're having a tidy up and i thought i'd charge it and see if it's worth selling on or whatever.

It's a macbook air 13 inch early 2014 according to the serial number, problem is when starting up to try and repair the disk (as on opening its simply a folder with a ?) it cannot find the disk.
This leads me to think that disk is goosed or a connector is knackered.

Are these models able to have a new ssd Im wondering?

 

[GeeJay57]

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Good luck

 

[GeeJay57]

And you might be able run it from a usb 3 thumb drive

Create a bootable installer for macOS – Apple Support (UK)

Use an external drive or secondary volume as a startup disk from which to install macOS.

support.apple.com

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

Are these models able to have a new ssd Im wondering?

Ifixit has detailed instructions on replacing the SSD in the early 2014 model...

MacBook Air 13" Early 2014 Solid-State Drive Replacement

Use this guide to upgrade or replace the solid-state drive in a MacBook Air 13” Early 2014. This MacBook Air uses a proprietary storage drive...

www.ifixit.com

 

[Donnie]

Thanks all, having looked at how little these go for on ebay im in a quandary as to whether to bother or not to be honest for the cost of another ssd. :-/

 

[ancient_mariner]

Less than £20 for a 128gb SSD. I have a couple at home bought a year or so back for £9.99 because it's often useful to have.

It's often handy to have a spare old laptop for holidays etc, and if it previously had a HDD it will be much nicer with an SSD.

 

[Donnie]

Yes I think I'll give it a go as it'll be something to do but also I think if it's at least working the wife can use it to trade in at apple when she wants her next iphone lol

 

[Donnie]

So as an update, ended up buying a good used 128mb ssd from ebay of all places and its all working fine. It turns out apple use a proprietary connection so couldn't find one anywhere else other than apple and I wasn't prepared to bend over lol.

 

[JohnMcL7]

So as an update, ended up buying a good used 128mb ssd from ebay of all places and its all working fine. It turns out apple use a proprietary connection so couldn't find one anywhere else other than apple and I wasn't prepared to bend over lol.

I was a bit puzzled by that because some places were selling standard SSDs are being compatible but teardowns showed it was a proprietary connector so glad you've managed to get the right drive.