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Can a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) be used for anything in 2023?
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, Sep 07 2023 01:12 PM
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Posted 10 September 2023 - 01:10 PM
Sure, I'll look into it! I'm just trying to envision in my head how it would be done. Would I have to recover it to another drive first and then somehow deploy it to the mac drive?
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Posted 10 September 2023 - 01:16 PM
No boot linux live and run testdisk yiu can recover the hdd/ssd
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Posted 10 September 2023 - 01:21 PM
crazy I cannot install testdisk via software manager. I've done this before, what is going on?
Edited by pcpunk, 10 September 2023 - 01:22 PM.
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Posted 10 September 2023 - 01:27 PM
See if it's available already if not try terminal
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Posted 10 September 2023 - 01:28 PM
Testdisk does not work with APFS
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Posted 10 September 2023 - 01:29 PM
Well that sucks
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Posted 10 September 2023 - 01:40 PM
I take that back, it may work, I'll try it now. Don't see options to recover to the original drive, or any for that matter?
Edited by pcpunk, 10 September 2023 - 01:44 PM.
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Posted 10 September 2023 - 01:45 PM
Take a screenshot of the testdisk window.
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Posted 10 September 2023 - 02:02 PM
There are no options for a procedure like this? Maybe JohnC will chime in on whether or not this can be done.
I'm trying to Restore from Mac Recovery screen now. Looks like it didn't work
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Posted 10 September 2023 - 03:47 PM
I tried to rewrite the partitions to the drive but it did not work.
"9.8. Partitions selection
Partitions listed as D(eleted) will not be recovered if you let them listed as deleted. Use the arrow keys to switch the partitions you want to recover (check the partition size, list the file contents…) from D(eleted) to *(bootable), P(rimary) or L(ogical). Only one partition can be listed as *(bootable). It is not a problem if a partition is marked as bootable on a disk you will not start from (e.g. an external disk) but there MUST be a bootable partition on a disk you want to start your computer from.
Once all the partitions you want to keep and all the partitions you want to recover are properly marked as non deleted, continue on next screen. Review the partitions list. If all partitions are listed and only in this case, confirm at Write with Enter, y and OK. Now, the partitions are registered in the partition table.
Some folks have a horrible way of writing, as in this part of the sentence from above. I was able to decipher it and move on but it makes no sense.
"If all partitions are listed and only in this case, confirm at Write with Enter, y and OK. Now, the partitions are registered in the partition table."
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Posted 10 September 2023 - 04:13 PM
Testdisk does not work with APFS
Actually, for the High Sierra it is Mac OS Extended, also known as HFS Plus or HFS +.
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Posted 10 September 2023 - 05:59 PM
I would like to install Monteray but all the tutorials are doing so on a Mac! Installing this would be a work around because it is a newer os.
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Posted 14 September 2023 - 11:45 AM
Once I had time to review the Testdisk manual I realise that it does support HFS Plus or HFS +. I think the problem is that I overwrote a little over a GB when doing the Clean Install. So I'm waiting on a full installer that I cannot make on my Windows computer.
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