Rescue Macbook

[AJB88]

Hi All,

2010 MBP which I use at home for surfing, got it cheap last year. it has 8gb ram and Samsung SSD.

Because its not my "main machine" I never bothered doing any kind of backup (school boy error)

Decided to try out the MacOS High Sierra BETA on it, install went well but once rebooted it sat on the boot screen for a while (grey one with loading bar), once login screen finally came up, entered password and it just sits there and never logs in.

Went into the recovery menu and did a SSD health check which didn't work so decided to wipe SSD and start again, it now boots into the internet boot menu and asks me to reinstall the OS, it gets all the way to the end then comes up with an error. so it never actually installs.

I am in the process of downloading a .dmg file to flash to a USB on Windows to try rescue it that way.

Any other ideas? Was working perfectly up until then using.

[AJB88]

Full wipe clean install would be nice! I use the cloud to save stuff so there isn't much on the machine anyway.

I attempted the netboot recovery again last night, keeps coming up with an error. It gets down to seconds left the goes to -399 seconds.

Then I get this error:




I have tried setting the time and date by doing this in terminal:

date 0724065417 which works but it doesn't solve the issue.

Edited by AJB88 on Monday 24th July 07:01

[AJB88]

it doesnt freeze it just comes up with that error, reading online that 2010 MBP might not be able to use network install, looks like it was on 2011 onwards.

SSD was new 6 months ago and has been working perfectly till I installed MacOS High Sierra.

Basically I need to get hold of the MacOS Sierra DMG installed from somewhere (I don't have another MacOS device to download it on)

[AJB88]

rich888 said:

I've looked at the downloads available from Apple and it appears to be one of these:

https://support.apple.com/en_US/downloads

They are listing two variants:

Download macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Combo Update OR Download macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Update

Which one do you want and I will download it to a DVD for you unless you know someone closer who could download it for you.

Bingo I should be able to download that and flash it on a USB via a Windows machine.

Will try that when I get home, wasn't aware you could download it directly, even Apple support in California said it had to be done via Appstore.

[AJB88]

Ah damn, I read somewhere somebody can download the install package from appstore and send it to me.

[AJB88]

there a programme I downloaded the other night for Windows that can do it. but as you say you need to download the file via App store firstly.

Need to find somebody who has a Mac haha.

[AJB88]

Il try that if all else fails, as its a 2010 MBP thought I was expecting them to say p155 off.

I did quickly speak to a chap in California via chat earlier today but as the MBP is at home there wasn't much he could do.

[AJB88]

Stemll I just got your email on my phone.

I think I have actually resolved it, I had an old Snow Leopard DVD which has managed to restore Snow leopard onto the machine, I'm now in the middle of the long and slow process of updating from 10.6.8 back to 12.6!!!!!

[AJB88]

Back up and running on 10.12.6