When you Google, How do I load OSX on a new hard drive using a PC, you end up with some great suggestions to use VM Virtual Box, which means you have to get a copy of your OSX load.
![]() Commenting to note theres an official tutorial available, too. Hopefully I diagnosed a bad hard drive correctly (Ill provide my method) and I hope this helps someone out there. This is probably overkill on instructions, but there are PC people out there who may try to help out the (much more) rare critical Mac issue. I did most of this from memory, so I may have messed up a label here or there. Please use Common sense if I did this and look around the screen for something that looks like what Im talking about. If your Mac is unable to access that feature, this may not work for you, but I included some other handy stuff, like recovering files from the drive. Finally, on startup one day, he saw a progress bar that would complete and then the device would shut down. Continue holding the keys until the Recovery Utility prompts you to select a language (Grey Screen) NOTE:You may have to hold the keys for up to two minutes. Click the Repair Disk button that will only appear after you click Verify. Do this until there are no errors or (like me) you receive a message saying that the disc couldnt be repaired. If this completes successfully, click Repair Disk Permissions. ![]() To pull the cover, put your fingers at the hinge of the MacBook screen (from the bottom), and lift from the metal part under the rubber cover. There will be two cables to plug in and they are directional. The smaller plug is the data cable that goes into the rectangular USB connector. If you bought the same one I did, there is a connector that adapts the standard power supply connector to SATA. Note: You will not see it show up as a hard drive as the Mac drive format is not diurectly compatible as a disk drive with Windows. I selected the Select a Device radio button and in the Detected Devices drop-down and click Load. My husbands files were in the second partition under the Users Username folder. You will have to babysit it because there are a lot of Mac file names that are not OK on Windows.
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