Situation: Intel-era Macbook with High Sierra OS. System folder is cooked (machine will crash to black-screen and restart a few seconds into any attempted boot). Disk Utility and DiskWarior successfully repaired any drive/partition problems from a booted external, but the internal's system folder is still fried.
I do have the user password, but cannot access the internal drive's passworded user folders from an external drive. SIP is disabled, and nothing is encrypted.
--Short of attempting an in-place reinstall of High Sierra (probably safe) or trying to clone the Core Services folder and other bits from a working external High Sierra system folder (probably not safe), or creating a new High Sierra partition or user folder elsewhere and migrating (safe, but a lengthy chore) what other options are there to pop those user folders open on legacy machines?
I do have the user password, but cannot access the internal drive's passworded user folders from an external drive. SIP is disabled, and nothing is encrypted.
--Short of attempting an in-place reinstall of High Sierra (probably safe) or trying to clone the Core Services folder and other bits from a working external High Sierra system folder (probably not safe), or creating a new High Sierra partition or user folder elsewhere and migrating (safe, but a lengthy chore) what other options are there to pop those user folders open on legacy machines?