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boujaw

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Aug 24, 2015
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Hi, i need some serious help i'm kind of desperate!

So i was trying to reset my MBP and somehow i deleted everything! Now when i boot up my MBP i just see a folder with a "?" on it! I don't have another Mac so i can't download anything from the Appstore, nor disk recovery, nor anything, i just have a Windows PC.

So far i've tried:

- Internet recovery: does not work, i get 10 diferent -xxxx erros. I've changed my security to WPA/WPA2: error. I've tried different networks in diferent houses: error. I've tried a ethernet cable: error. Whatever i seem to do with internet recovery i keep on getting some sort of apple error.

- USB bootable disk: i've downloaded Mountain Lion and Mavericks, booted a 250gb HD with both of them with Transmac on Windows, but i keep on getting a prohibitory sign. the only .dmg that seems to work is yosemite zone but i gets frozen halfway at 50%. I can't do cmd+L stuff nothing appears.

I can't do anything with the MBP it's just a brick in the living room! Where i live there are no Geniuses Stores or Apple Stores!

Help is much apreciated!
 
OP wrote:
"Took me two weeks of research to get it working! Mac's are user friendly.....yeah right!"

IF you had had a bootable cloned external backup drive (created with either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper), you would have been back up and running in two MINUTES, instead of two weeks...
 
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