Hello, I received a 13" mid 2010 MacBook Pro in exchange for doing some work for somebody. I got the computer (with no HDD), power brick, and a few discs. The discs are: 15" Macbook OSX disc (they said it would work since it is for a MacBook of the same generation), Applications install Disc, and a Burned disc OSX 10.7 (they said it was made from an appstore download).
I had a 500GB Samsung drive out of another laptop, so I put that in the computer and tried booting Internet Recovery and it would hang at the loading screen (white screen with apple logo and spinning gear after the spinning globe and progress bar disappear), I waited for Hours and it just hung there (the gear stopped spinning after 5-10 min). So I tried the Burned OSX Disc, hangs at the same screen. I tried the Disc from the 15" it loaded then said that MAC OSX cannot be installed on this compter, but I was able to acces Disc utility and format the HDD.
I read online about Target disk mode and hooked the MacBook up to a Mac Mini and was able to install OSX 10.6.3 and upgrade to 10.6.8. It boots and works fine through target disk mode, but as soon as I try to boot the mac by itself, it hangs just like recovery. I then Tried Installing 10.7 through target disk mode, same story. In verbose it hangs after:
I have tried repairing permissions and disk repair from the MBP 15" disc and it says the Disk is OK. I ran MEMTEST86+ overnight and it found nothing. I also tried a brand new 1TB WD drive and I talked to the previous owner who gave me the original 250GB Seagate drive (it was erased) and it didn't help. Can't safeboot, or boot recovery from internet, disc, or Recovery partition, I tried holding the D key for AHT but it continues to try to boot and hangs , I can Boot to single user mode but that is it.
I am not very familiar with Mac or any UNIX/linux enviroment so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
-Brad
I had a 500GB Samsung drive out of another laptop, so I put that in the computer and tried booting Internet Recovery and it would hang at the loading screen (white screen with apple logo and spinning gear after the spinning globe and progress bar disappear), I waited for Hours and it just hung there (the gear stopped spinning after 5-10 min). So I tried the Burned OSX Disc, hangs at the same screen. I tried the Disc from the 15" it loaded then said that MAC OSX cannot be installed on this compter, but I was able to acces Disc utility and format the HDD.
I read online about Target disk mode and hooked the MacBook up to a Mac Mini and was able to install OSX 10.6.3 and upgrade to 10.6.8. It boots and works fine through target disk mode, but as soon as I try to boot the mac by itself, it hangs just like recovery. I then Tried Installing 10.7 through target disk mode, same story. In verbose it hangs after:
Code:
Running fsck on the boot volume...
** /dev/rdisk0s2 (NO WRITE)
** Root file system
Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-540.1~25).
hfs: Removed 2 orphaned / unlinked files and 0 directories
BootCacheControl: Unable to open /var/db/BootCache.playlist: 2 No such file or directory
macx_swapon SUCCESS
Waiting for DSMOS...
Previous Shutdown Cause: 3I have tried repairing permissions and disk repair from the MBP 15" disc and it says the Disk is OK. I ran MEMTEST86+ overnight and it found nothing. I also tried a brand new 1TB WD drive and I talked to the previous owner who gave me the original 250GB Seagate drive (it was erased) and it didn't help. Can't safeboot, or boot recovery from internet, disc, or Recovery partition, I tried holding the D key for AHT but it continues to try to boot and hangs , I can Boot to single user mode but that is it.
I am not very familiar with Mac or any UNIX/linux enviroment so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
-Brad