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    Split Fusion Drive, now not booting, can't find solution!

    My 2011 Macbook Pro running El Capitan was running fine until recently when it suddenly decided to stop booting after getting a new charger which I assume was sketchy (refurbished apple from ebay). I believe that my fusion drive has split back into the original hdd and ssd and now I can't boot...
    • provhatr
    • Thread
    • boot boot error fusion fusion drive hdd hdd failure recovery split ssd ssd failure
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
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    Internet Recovery going on 12 hours.

    All the articles i can find suggest it can be over an hour depending on equipment and internet speed. The globe has been revolving for just about 12 hours now. I chose this route because the kernel seemed to be panicking and the only new software i had installed was that to operate the GoPro...
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    Cant enter recovery mode anymore

    I wanted to restore my Mac. The guide I found said to go to recovery mode by holding command + r upon restarting, and in there to go to disc utility and then delete the drive. I did this, and then I closed the disk utility in order to select the option to restore macOS. However, when selecting...
    • felixen
    • Thread
    • internet recovery mac macos recovery reinstall restore restore mac restore macos stuck
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: macOS
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    Intended Boot USB creation wiped storage HD - Recovery possible?

    Hi, Earlier this week I used my Mac Pro to create a Boot USB so I could reinstall the OS on a separate Macbook. My Mac Pro has two harddrives in it. One for the OS and one for storage. I'm not quite sure how/where the error occurred but the result is that it seems that the storage harddrive...
    • KommanderKeen
    • Thread
    • hard drive recovery time machine
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: macOS
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    Extracting files from old Macbook Pro hard drive

    Hi all, This is my first post here so apologies if this has been raised before. If there is another thread can someone please point me in the right direction? I currently have a MacBook Pro 13", a few days ago the system crashed, just switched to a black screen, I left it a while, then...
    • sampollock87
    • Thread
    • crashed external hard drive hard drive help macbook pro recovery
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
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    MBP boots into recovery mode/Installation log showing error logs after restarting

    Yesterday I updated something through the MacBook Appstore. I really do not know what I was updating exactly. I only know it was in the AppStore. It could've been an update from High Sierra to Mojave. I'm not very sure but I think it completed as the red notification badge was gone already and I...
  7. JohnAtl1

    Mojave: create DiskWarrior Recovery Disk -- Source macOS Recovery Disk?

    Bought DiskWarrior. In the process of attempting to create a bootable drive to recover my TimeMachine backup, I ran the DiskWarrior Recovery Maker, but the dropdown to select a Source macOS Recovery Disk is grayed out. I downloaded Mojave and made a bootable USB, but it is not recognized by the...
  8. Skeptical.me

    macOS Mojave on iMac constant Kernel Panics

    Hi! When I press Command R at boot this page about reset password appears https://i.imgur.com/JLPiu5E.jpg and then before I can do anything I get a Kernel Panic and a reboot over and over again. I can't seem to enter Recovery. I just want to enter into the Recovery screen. iMac Late 2015 i5...
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    Restore SSD with macOS High Sierra

    Hi guys. I have Mac Mini with installed SSD and it worked well since one and half year. Recently i got some trouble with it. For some reason(i don't know why),my High Sierra crashed(freezed) two times, third time reboot didn't help and seems to be OS has come to broken state :(...
  10. skmcdesign

    Disk is locked at Install macOS

    After encountering a kernel panic loop, I rebooted my mac to Recovery Mode but now it only starts in Recovery Mode so I chose Install macOS Sierra, connected to my wifi, but it says the disk is locked. :(
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    Reinstalling OS, can't erase Mac HD

    TLDR; Boot from install disk for High Sierra, Disk Util won't erase MacHD inside SSD container for clean install, Installer app says Mac HD is locked, never had FileVault engaged and it doesn't show core in diskutil list. I have tried to erase Mac HD but it never moves progress bar and I have...
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    Macbook Admin Password Reset

    Hello, I've been trying to reset this Macbook's Log in password for like two days now it belongs to my cousin's deceased friend, i've done this before with my brother's Macbook Air twice because he has the memory of a goldfish. anyway the issue with this Macbook that i cant access the...
    • Haitham.o
    • Thread
    • admin help lion macbook osx password recovery reset
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: MacBook Neo
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    possible to recover iPad Safari History?

    I thought iPad/iOS keeps the last 30 days of Safari history? (and automatically deletes older history) That was my experience up until recently. However, browsing through my Safari History, it seems more than usually has been deleted. History now only goes back to the 9th of May. I'm the only...
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    Is my iMac hard drive dead?

    I have a mid-2011 iMac with Sierra. I tried to login this morning and it looked like it was going to work but then the graphics got all jumbled and it rebooted...then kept rebooting. Powered it down and restarted and it just got stuck on the rebooting cycle. I tried recovery mode but it would...
    • jmac049
    • Thread
    • hard drive hard drive failure imac recovery
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: iMac
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    Fusion Drive Format Help

    Hi guys, I have a Mac Mini Late 2014, with Windows 10 Bootcamped on. Windows 10 decided to screw me with a forced update which ruined the entire installation. I've backed up the Windows partition. I now want to erase the fusion drive and restore it back to its original factory state. I want...
    • JasunX
    • Thread
    • fusion dirve macos recovery
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Mac mini
  16. nontroppo

    APFS Recovery Disk Not Shown with ⌥ at Startup

    I did a clean install of 10.13 on a MacbookPro 11,5 and I have the following disk structure: > diskutil list /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.3 GB...
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    Accidentally deleted my Macs internal harddrive!!! HELP!!

    So I was trying to install Windows 10 via Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro (2011). I made a new partition in Disk Utility and called it BOOTCAMP (For my Windows) As I'm planning to use Windows a lot from now on, I decided to make it take up a lot of the space. I resized the partition where my OSX High...
    • SpyroTheSavage
    • Thread
    • delete deleted disk utility free space hard drive macbook pro (13" early 2011) partition partition macbook pro mac os recover recovery
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
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    Installing mac from a External Drive

    Hello, I've been strugglin lately with El Capitan OS system. My problem is that I erased the Macintosh HD Drive and every time I boot on Recovery Mode I can't re-install the new OS because I dont have the Apple ID from this particular machine. I tried all the key board compbinations and none of...
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    iPhone SE (2016) Forgot Passcode, requires complete factory reset

    So, my iPhone is completely disabled after I forgot passcode to it. I have no backups, no iCloud, no nothing. Is there a chance in this entire universe by which I can get any iPhone pictures back after doing complete factory wipeout? Any third-party program, any means by which this is possible...
    • uniqueuser
    • Thread
    • data extraction data loss factory reset forgotpasscode recovery reset
    • Replies: 24
    • Forum: iPhone
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    itunes backup

    Where can I find the itunes backup files? I think I bricked my iphone, and I want the files back. I was able to find the itunes folder in app data (I'm using windows by the way), but it only had gibberish files Is there somewhere I can find the backups?
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