Omnibus response...
Thanks, but no thanks. Since the iBook seems to be bricked, you might pile some dirt on the keyboard and plant ivy.
Keeping stuff together...
|I found out that the reason the Macbook Pro I am looking at is an open box and returned so soon is b/c the person who bought it wanted a touch bar instead so returned it to the shop for a different model.
Forever the sceptic, I don't buy that.
Had the original purchaser bought the 2016 model I could see the mind change and upgrade, but since se went for the $200 cheaper 2015 model in the first place, I'll scratch my head.
Is that because the Touch Bar wasn't available back then anyway?At any rate, the same MBP is available from the
Apple Refurbished Store for $1,099 as I type.
Yeah, but the refurbished one is not eligible for AppleCare which I like. Also, the one I was looking at is eligible. So should something major go wrong, I can get it fixed or replaced for free, depending on his bad it might be.And last, but not least, back to square one...
If these steps can be followed, they should get your MBP working with no need for your external drive:
- Boot from your external.
- Navigate to Disk Utility.
- If it appears in DU's sidebar, select your MBP's "Macintosh Hard Drive" (or whatever it's called). (Don't select the top line, i.e. the HDD, itself, but the one immediately below it.) (*)
- Click on the "Erase" tab.
- If you're offered options, select "Write all zeros".
- Let 'er rip, and be prepared to wait a while.
- Since you've got a bootable external, I assume that you've got a cloning app, so now clone your external back to your MBP.
- I've got SuperDuper if that's what you mean but I don't know how to get it back onto my MBP just back onto the external drive. I'm willing to try since I can't get to my internal drive anyway. If Steve Jobs is smiling up on Olympus, the MBP should now be good to go on its own.
(*) Erasing only your OS X volume, not your entire HDD, will preserve your recovery partition.
