MacBook Pro 2015 broken screen/ unbootable drive

[beloved84]

I have a MacBook Pro 2015 with a broken screen. I've been using it as desktop, until my my drive became unbootable. It has a folder with a question mark when I turn it on.

Any suggestions on how to fix the drive? the difficult part is not being able to see the screen and since the drive is unbeatable, I can't hook it up to a monitor. is the screen worth fixing?

Thanks in advance.

 

[matram]

You do not provide any specifics on you current machine. That makes it very difficult to give advice.

Personally I would treat this as a bussiness decision. Your machine is five years old, what is the remaining lifespan, maybe two years before the machine is osbolete. So the remaining value is about 30% (2/7) of what you purchased the machine for. Any repair cost should be lower than the remaining value.

If you ask Apple to repair the display you may pay 700 USD. So your machine would likely need to be a maxed out 15” to make repairs a good option.

If you machine is a lower end MBP sell it for parts and buy a new one.

 

[pshufd]

I would try booting off of an external drive that already has macOS on it or install macOS on an external drive if one isn't available. You could get a 1 TB SSD for about $100 and an enclosure for about $15. I have lots of spare SSDs and I'd try this first.

I have a 2014 MacBook Pro 15 and a 2015 MacBook Pro 15. I do not plan to repair either of these when they fail. But I also have a 2015 MacBook Pro 13 so I have backup if one of these fails. My 2008 MacBook Pro died in 2018 but I already had my 2014 by then. I just added a 2015 at that time.

MacBook Pros can last a long time and I'm expecting ten years out of the 2014 and 2015 models but there are benefits to the newer systems and I'm really excited about macOS ARM.

 

[DeltaMac]

You could also boot to Internet Recovery (boot holding Option-Command-R) which should boot showing a spinning globe (not the normal Apple icon). Then, you should get a menu screen where you can run Disk Utility. If you see your boot drive listed, you can select it, then try First Aid. If you don't see your boot drive in the list, you can probably assume that the SSD is toast. Anything that you don't have backed up is gone forever. And, you can get a working boot drive by replacing your SSD.

 

[beloved84]

You could also boot to Internet Recovery (boot holding Option-Command-R) which should boot showing a spinning globe (not the normal Apple icon). Then, you should get a menu screen where you can run Disk Utility. If you see your boot drive listed, you can select it, then try First Aid. If you don't see your boot drive in the list, you can probably assume that the SSD is toast. Anything that you don't have backed up is gone forever. And, you can get a working boot drive by replacing your SSD.

thanks for the reply. The only problem is I can’t see the display because the screen is broken.

 

[beloved84]

i was able to figure out how to send some windows to my external monitor.
When I ran first aid they gave me this...
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You do not provide any specifics on you current machine. That makes it very difficult to give advice.

Personally I would treat this as a bussiness decision. Your machine is five years old, what is the remaining lifespan, maybe two years before the machine is osbolete. So the remaining value is about 30% (2/7) of what you purchased the machine for. Any repair cost should be lower than the remaining value.

If you ask Apple to repair the display you may pay 700 USD. So your machine would likely need to be a maxed out 15” to make repairs a good option.

If you machine is a lower end MBP sell it for parts and buy a new one.

im sorry this is my wife‘s laptop from her former job. I’m unsure if the specs without accessing the computer.
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I would try booting off of an external drive that already has macOS on it or install macOS on an external drive if one isn't available. You could get a 1 TB SSD for about $100 and an enclosure for about $15. I have lots of spare SSDs and I'd try this first.

I have a 2014 MacBook Pro 15 and a 2015 MacBook Pro 15. I do not plan to repair either of these when they fail. But I also have a 2015 MacBook Pro 13 so I have backup if one of these fails. My 2008 MacBook Pro died in 2018 but I already had my 2014 by then. I just added a 2015 at that time.

MacBook Pros can last a long time and I'm expecting ten years out of the 2014 and 2015 models but there are benefits to the newer systems and I'm really excited about macOS ARM.

thanks for this.