Hi
Hope you can help, I have spent a week on this, and i am getting closer.
I can't remember my pwd for my MacBook Pro, as i haven't used it for well over a year since I bought it.
As the screen was cracked i store dit away, but now i don't have any mac in the house and life isn't the same!
Spec:
MacBook pro snow leopard installed on it, it’s around 2014/15 I believe.
I tried the following:
Recovery mode, but the mac doesn’t have a recovery partition!
I then created a bootable USB, which does boot, using the option key when I power on.
But I get the black screen with error: you need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button until it turns off. Then press the power button again.
How I created my bootable USB:
* reset my pram
I created a bootable USB as follows:
a. formatted USB in transmac for mac
b. under dos/cmd I did the following:
start menu> run>cmd> diskpart
DISKPART> list disk
(Find the disk number)
DISKPART> select disk 2
Disk 2 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.
DISKPART> convert gpt
DiskPart successfully converted the selected disk to GPT format.
DISKPART> create partition primary
c. I then downloaded snow leopard from:
https://archive.org/details/SnowLeopardInstall
d. transmac > restore with disk image
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To make sure the hard disk is ok, I booted as normal and I can get to the login screen,
As I am a programmer and a techi I Have spent 1 week on it and it’s driving me nutz now, but I am not giving up, I am close now. lol
Thanks in advance,
Kind Regards
Jami
Hope you can help, I have spent a week on this, and i am getting closer.
I can't remember my pwd for my MacBook Pro, as i haven't used it for well over a year since I bought it.
As the screen was cracked i store dit away, but now i don't have any mac in the house and life isn't the same!
Spec:
MacBook pro snow leopard installed on it, it’s around 2014/15 I believe.
I tried the following:
Recovery mode, but the mac doesn’t have a recovery partition!
I then created a bootable USB, which does boot, using the option key when I power on.
But I get the black screen with error: you need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button until it turns off. Then press the power button again.
How I created my bootable USB:
* reset my pram
I created a bootable USB as follows:
a. formatted USB in transmac for mac
b. under dos/cmd I did the following:
start menu> run>cmd> diskpart
DISKPART> list disk
(Find the disk number)
DISKPART> select disk 2
Disk 2 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.
DISKPART> convert gpt
DiskPart successfully converted the selected disk to GPT format.
DISKPART> create partition primary
c. I then downloaded snow leopard from:
https://archive.org/details/SnowLeopardInstall
d. transmac > restore with disk image
********
To make sure the hard disk is ok, I booted as normal and I can get to the login screen,
As I am a programmer and a techi I Have spent 1 week on it and it’s driving me nutz now, but I am not giving up, I am close now. lol
Thanks in advance,
Kind Regards
Jami