I only have disk images( apple disk image media) available when in disk utility. My mac crashed last week and it brought me to macos recovery, however when i tried to reinstall the mac os, there were no disk available to install my os pn
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Help with disk utility and reinstallation of os
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Not good! What Mac is it and which version of macOS are you running?
Looks like either your hard drive is dead, there's a problem with the internal cable, or something is haywire with your motherboard.
Looks like either your hard drive is dead, there's a problem with the internal cable, or something is haywire with your motherboard.
I was running mac mojave on my 2012 macbook pro
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Is it possible to still run my mac by using a external hard drive ?
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Well something new came up i managed to boot into my bootcamp disk for somereason
NEW UPDATE : I restarted my mac and somehow managed to boot into my windows bootcamp disk, but it looked like this
NEW UPDATE :i restarted my Mac and somehow managed to boot into my windows bootcamp, but it ended up restarting agaim and again
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Spinning hard drive? or SSD?
Either one is "missing", so you will need to replace the drive.
I think you have a spinning hard drive, that worked "good enough" to get to the Windows system boot blocks, but no further. A failed SSD would probably not get that close to working.
Yes, you can run with an external drive. You may want to remove the internal drive, just in case it begins to interfere with anything else that boots your system. In other words, I wouldn't trust a "dead" drive that might suddenly start working just enough to give you problems.
Either one is "missing", so you will need to replace the drive.
I think you have a spinning hard drive, that worked "good enough" to get to the Windows system boot blocks, but no further. A failed SSD would probably not get that close to working.
Yes, you can run with an external drive. You may want to remove the internal drive, just in case it begins to interfere with anything else that boots your system. In other words, I wouldn't trust a "dead" drive that might suddenly start working just enough to give you problems.
This could be your opportunity to put in the new SSD and, while it's apart, easily put in a new battery as well as RAM if it could use some more.