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failed hard drive

  1. whippedcream101

    macbook pro 2011 grey screen plz help

    Hi, recently my MacBook fails to boot into the OS. I have replaced my HDD with an SSD and tried it with other macs and it has worked so when I put the SSD into my mac. The apple loading bar gets to 75% of completion on the bar then everything disappears and there is just a grey screen and after...
  2. L

    update from Sierra to High Sierra Fail with cant find /system/installation/package/Osinstall

    Hello. i tried to upgrade from Sierra to High Sierra and it failed with the error "cant continue the installation cant find /system/installation/package/Osinstall" i tried to repartition the drive from cmd+r disk utility and it dosent let me erase the partition. started with a usb i created and...
  3. A

    Deleted my Macintosh HD, trying to reboot mavericks from a USB drive

    I bought a mac book pro, mid 2012, retina version- from somebody I didn't know, off of craigslist. First mistake. It seemed to work fine, but after awhile it started freezing often and then the folder with a question mark started to appear. I was told that all I had to do was make a bootable USB...
  4. Firestone

    I need an OLDER version of the KingSpec PATA 64GB SSD

    Hi everyone! I've been searching the internet everywhere for an older (used) version of the KingSpec PATA KSD-PA25.6-064MS drive. My drive was bought in april 2012, so I need a drive from around this time period. The short version of this history is that my drive has failed, and is now with a...
  5. tarikbatal

    Bootup Failed!

    Hi Guys, Ive tried booting in safe mode, verbose mode, repairing the disk (first aid) within disk utility and nothing. It used to be that the computer would get to the end of the startup progress bar and then shut down. Now it's opening the terminal upon every start and nothing seems to be...
  6. D

    Need help with LR5 and time machine/mac book pro..?

    As this is my first post, please forgive me if i'm doing this all wrong. I am using a mid 2010 Mac Book Pro running Yosemite 10.10.5 and LR5. I have a 3rd Generation time machine 2GB (the upright one) and have a specific question regarding all the above. When i am storing my LR catalogs on my...