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Hi; My sons Macbook has died. I have tried all of the various boot option, CMD + R, CMD + S etc to no avail. I have managed to boot into recovery (with all of the various recovery options) and safe mode to terminal but all of the various solutions on the web failed. Last resort remove the HDD and connect it as an external HDD to my other Mac, however, when I did this the device appeared on my desktop and all of the folders appear but not files. I am now trying to scan using Disk Drill but so far nothing has been found apart from a 500MB lost partition which contains com.apple.recovery.boot. Still searching. I then put a spar SATA HDD in and tried to boot from an install DVD from my earlier Macbook 13 2008 but although I can hear the DVD spin nothing shows on the screen. I then removed the HDD and tried again without the HDD fitted but still nothing? Any help to get the up and running again would ben fantastic. Thanks Update (10/20/2018) I went onto that site to ID the machine. It is a MacBook Core 2 Duo 2.4 13” (Mid 2010). (P8600) A1342
The grey system installation disks are machine specific. A Mac will not boot from a system that is earlier than what it shipped with. Sounds like you have another Mac that may be close. The icon you selected is the A1181, there were 17 versions of this model starting in 2006 and going to 2009 the 2006 had Pre-Installed MacOS:X 10.4.6 (8I2025)Maximum MacOS:X 10.6.8* the 2009 had Pre-Installed MacOS:X 10.5.7Maximum MacOS:X 10.11.x* So we HAVE to know the exact machines we are talking about here so we can get on the same page to solve your problem. Find the serial numbers and plug them in on this link to do that https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup…
