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Unable to install macOS Monterey on MacBook Pro 2015
I'm trying to install macOS Monterey on my MacBook Pro 2015. These are the steps/events arranged in chronological order.
One day while turning on the Mac, my Mac stopped booting. It stopped at the ...
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iMac 12 mid 2011 model - OS installation issue
My kiddo recently got a iMac 12 mid 2011 model as a gift for homeschooling purposes. The device was working perfectly fine until the reset to remove the previous owners information as per the Apple ...
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Can boot with external SSD via USB, but can't boot USB flash drive with same data
I have a SSD, which I'm using to boot sometimes from. Yosemite is installed on it. I have some legacy apps there which do not run on newer OS versions (Catalina and newer).
Now I've cloned the SSD ...
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White screen - MacBook 15” early 2011
I have a MacBook Pro 15" early 2011.
It has been slow and full since a long time so I decided to upgrade it with a Samsung 870EVO 2.5 SATA SSD.
Since then, I can't access anything.
I can't boot ...
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Unable to boot from USB installer (17-inch, 2.66GHz MacBook Pro (MB604LL/A) [duplicate]
I have an old 2009 macbook pro that had problems with hard drive. I changed it to new SSD (also updated ram to 2x4gb 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM PC3-8500S), and created bootable USB in windows with TransMac ...
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Macbook won't boot from USB or do Internet Recovery after deleting main volume
After encountering some errors with the main volume of my 2019 Macbook Pro, I deleted the volume (and, I think, recreated it), expecting to be able to reinstall MacOS on it from Recovery. (I believe ...
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My MacBook Pro Mid-2009 is not detecting any external USB drives in the boot menu
I'm trying to install Windows 7 on my Mid 2009 MacBook Pro using Boot Camp and when I go restart and hold option key, the USB drive is not being detected. I tried other USB's and I get the same issue. ...
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2009 Macbook Pro w/ broken Catalina OS won't recognize bootable OS X USB [duplicate]
Disclaimer: Several similar questions to this one have been asked before. Most of those solutions have been tried without luck.
TLDR version at the end:
My problem and the troubleshooting steps ...
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Windows Bootcamp at Startup Manager
I recently formatted my Macbook Air 2013 to install Linux. There are currently no OS installed.
When booting into the Startup Manager with the Linux Boot USB, i see the Linux portion (EFI Boot) but I ...
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How can I clone my internal BOOTCAMP to a bootable USB?
I have problems with a windows game on Bootcamp that used to work fine, and now doesn't. So I tried making a bootable bootcamp on a USB. Bootcamp runs on the USB but I would say it doesn't run as well ...
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Stuck in Kernel Panic 1 after failed OS X install via bootable usb
I had to do a complete clean reinstall of the OS on a Macbook Pro 5 (late 2009).
Reinstalling the OS through disk recovery didn't work,El capitan is no longer available to download.No backups were ...
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installing Debian on mac a different mac partition
I disabled the SIP (system integrity protection)
I installed refind-bin-0.13.3.1
I erased the USB into FAT
I booted the Debian on the USB using DD
diskutil list
sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/...
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How do I make an offline recovery USB for MacOS Monterey?
I have a Macbook Pro from 2015 with a MacOS Monterey 12.6
I want to make a recovery USB for it
I tried following instructions here, https://mrmacintosh.com/how-to-create-a-bootable-macos-12-beta-usb-...
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Making macOS bootable USB stuck on "Making disk bootable"
I've followed the instructions in "Create a bootable installer for macOS" to create a bootable macOS USB installer using the following command:
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Ventura.app/...
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Mac Studio stopped recognising Apple wired keyboard
last week my Mac Studio suddenly stopped recognising my wired Apple keyboard. This happens after a reboot or when it was shut down - at first, it was enough to unplug it once and then it was ...
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