Hey
a couple of days ago my mac started acting up (took very long to boot up, would crash and freeze from time to time) so I decided to reinstall everything completely. I made a bootable external drive (pendrive with El Capitan) and began the process. I powered up my mac with option key pushed, chose my pendrive as a start up disc and everything went fine up until the point when my mac rebooted after successfully installing the OS and a pop up window showed up that it wasn't able to properly start with newly installed OSX and I should do it again (i'm sorry I didn't exactly understand...), so I clicked a restart button and then my mac just restarted...
I did everything in the very same order only this time I decided to clean everything in Disc Utility because I thought that maybe there are some old files that prevent the new software to install properly. Just now I'm beginning to realize how stupid I was ERASING every disc... I must have deleted some important partition and here's where real trouble started...
When I start up my mac the screen lights up, then the chime comes and... that's it... there should be Apple Logo and a loading bar but they never show up. The most terryfing part is that none of the recovery commands such as CMD+R or CMD+option+R work... Neither does option key at start up... I tried resetting NVRAM and I even contacted Apple Support but unsuprisingly they weren't able to suggest me anything.
Guys, do you have any idea what I could do? This mac is super old, fixing it at a local repair point would cost more than it's entire worth.
a couple of days ago my mac started acting up (took very long to boot up, would crash and freeze from time to time) so I decided to reinstall everything completely. I made a bootable external drive (pendrive with El Capitan) and began the process. I powered up my mac with option key pushed, chose my pendrive as a start up disc and everything went fine up until the point when my mac rebooted after successfully installing the OS and a pop up window showed up that it wasn't able to properly start with newly installed OSX and I should do it again (i'm sorry I didn't exactly understand...), so I clicked a restart button and then my mac just restarted...
I did everything in the very same order only this time I decided to clean everything in Disc Utility because I thought that maybe there are some old files that prevent the new software to install properly. Just now I'm beginning to realize how stupid I was ERASING every disc... I must have deleted some important partition and here's where real trouble started...
When I start up my mac the screen lights up, then the chime comes and... that's it... there should be Apple Logo and a loading bar but they never show up. The most terryfing part is that none of the recovery commands such as CMD+R or CMD+option+R work... Neither does option key at start up... I tried resetting NVRAM and I even contacted Apple Support but unsuprisingly they weren't able to suggest me anything.
Guys, do you have any idea what I could do? This mac is super old, fixing it at a local repair point would cost more than it's entire worth.
