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UncleRichard

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Apr 17, 2008
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Hi, I'm readying a Macbook Pro with broken graphics card for sale on eBay. The machine works in all ways apart from the graphics card, so nothing appears on screen, but the machine starts up and responds to mouse and keyboard commands. Connecting an external monitor doesn't work.

I thought this would be easy, but I want to reinstall Mountain Lion from the recovery disk using target disk mode. But I can't seem to start up the broken Mac to the Recovery Disk. If I use the Macbook Pro keyboard to hold Cmd-R it just boots as normal. If I use the keyboard of the iMac I replaced it with, connected by Firewire, I get what looks like the recovery mode for the iMac. I can't be sure of that, but when I enter Disk Utility the top disk (with a grey, non-networking icon) is my iMac disk and the disks below are the external ones and the MacBook Pro startup disk.

If I erase the MacBook Pro disk from here, will I be given the option to reinstall Mountain Lion? I'd rather have the current OS loaded than none at all at the end of the day, so I'm a bit cautious.

Richard
 
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