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sk8andmetal

macrumors regular
Original poster
Hi Folks,

my friend just asked me to take a look to his MacBook Pro (2012 unibody), that was not starting (White Screen).
took a look and identified that it might be a HDD failure , more precisely a GPT/MBR section issue.
After spending some hours trying fsck, fsck_hfs , gpt and other gparted commands from both another Mac and a Linux computer I am able to view partition however can't still get access to it in order to make a proper backup (last TM is from Jan).
I've been able to reinstall macOS on the device (using a spare HDD I was having, and Macbook seems fully functional)

Any tips are welcome.
thanks!
 
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