bad angle and lighting , you ' ll look even better if you smile and style your hair ! <| sep |> So there ' s a few things at play here . First what type of MacBook is it ? You mention it ' s a 2013 MacBook Pro with goes for ~$ 1500 , which makes me think it ' s a higher end Retina . Go and put in the serial number . This will tell us what version it is . Boot into recovery where you started the reinstall and go into Disk Utility . Does the drive mount there ? If the drive does , then you may be able to salvage it , but only for a short while . Where we go from there completely determines what you have . If it ' s a retina , it has to be serviced . AFAIK there aren ' t 3 rd party SSDs out for that year , which means using a first party part , which means an actual service provider does the work or you have to buy from some sketch sources .