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Laptop Cannot Boot
Al:
My MacBook Pro, after 4+ years of use, might be finally done. While I was moving it downstairs on Saturday, I unplugged the charger from the laptop end while it was rebooting, and it went pitch black. I thought it just hiccuped to sleep mode or something must have failed on restart, so I just pressed some keys and the power button, and it wouldn't boot up again.
I HAD to unplug my charger obviously because I couldn't drag the power outlet with me and all the other plugged devices in it with my laptop. Just removing the magnetic charger while it was restarting probably wasn't smart. Now I'm computerless and I start college in a week.
So yeah just letting you all know since this will hinder me from any activity on IRC, training to join on OSRS, doing my dailies on RS3, and I probably won't be able to start DS.
I searched the issue online and it seems I can get it fixed by replacing my hard drive, but this likely means that all my data won't be recoverable. As it says here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/421757.
If anyone knows anything about this or any possible solutions, I would greatly appreciate it.
I CE Y:
Put more coal in. init fam
btraill:
Hey Al, sucks to hear!
Have you tried booting into any of these modes? (recovery, safe boot, etc):
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201255
Do you get any initial display of a boot screen or does it stay black? Do fans start to spin-up when you press the button/can you hear anything inside powering up on boot?
Mojo:
RIP :(
Can't help much I have a Mac VM but not a real one :P
PineappleTom:
Not heard of that, sorry.