Yosemite error = MacBook brick?

[CalvinWatterson]

Hi everybody,

I installed Yosemite in my MacBook Pro mid2010 (upgraded to 8GBs and SSD) and it worked for the first boot. Then I activated FileVault and half an hour later the laptop freezed (during encryption progress)

Now my Mac only boots to a white screen, no Apple logo. Inserting a bootable media (DVD or pendrive) and pressing Alt won't make a difference, only the white screen.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I fear my laptop passed away...

 

[Manic Harmonic]

What happens if you remove the internal drive and try to boot from either another one or some other bootable media?

 

[CalvinWatterson]

I'll try tomorrow, now it's 3:00am in my country...

Already tried reseting PRAM, SMC, Command+R, Alt, and still the same. By the way, the chime sounds ok. PRAM reset worked itself, the bright and volume raised to the max

 

[Bamxcore]

Did you resolve this ?

Mines's exactly the same and nothing seems to work.

 

[Orlandoech]

Did you resolve this ?

Mines's exactly the same and nothing seems to work.

Not even installing another HDD with 10.9?

 

[laurihoefs]

Try Cmd+Opt+R to start Internet Recovery.

 

[Aagaard2703]

Something like that happened to me

Something like that happened to me - Went to recovery mode got into the Terminal and copied all my directories to an USB... Luckily! And installed Mavericks ;-)

 

[Bamxcore]

It's a macbook air so another hard drive isn't going to be cheap.

I've tried all forms of recovery to no aveil. My last option is to order a pentelobe screwdrive and take the hard drive out to force it to boot from a USB.