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Just say it's your aunts system and it stopped working. I would be curious what they say and do to fix things. The California-based tech behemoth describes this new release as razor-thin and feather light, weighing in at under 2kg, making it the perfect laptop for both personal home use or taking with you on the go. You'll want to put the SSD back in so they don't get a surprise -} Apple remains firmly at the forefront of innovative consumer electronics with the 2016 MacBook Pro. Was the logic board damaged at some point? Liquid spill.Īt this point I think you'll need to visit an Apple Store and let them see if they can fix things. So where does that leave us? I'm thinking the system had a problem to start with.
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Review this: How to encrypt your Mac with FileVault 2, and why you absolutely should. In any case you would have been asked for the recovery key some where in the boot process so if you had a dead system you could access the drive using the special key. Refurbished Mac mini 3.
Refurbished 21.5-inch iMac 3.2GHz 6-core Intel Core i7 with Retina 4K display and Radeon Pro Vega 20. But from my use for folder encryption it wouldn't have stopped you using a new SSD in the system. Refurbished 13.3-inch MacBook Air Apple M1 Chip with 8Core CPU and 8Core GPU - Space Gray.
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I don't do full drive encryption and I'm not sure what Apple has done in the newer systems. So if the SSD you got was encrypted then that can explain why if was not working (used).
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One of the element of the encryption is the CPU's serial number so if the drive is transferred it can't be used. You can either protect a folder or the entire drive. So was the system really working at that point? I find it odd to go to such an expense to gain access to the data when you could have simply plugged in an external drive and copy off everything.
So lets back up a moment here your Aunt sent the SSD out as she needed to recover the stuff on it. Also Disk Utility doesn't recognize any drive (other then my external one).Īnyone know what might be the problem here? Terminal says "No CoreStorage logical volume groups found" after writing diskutil cs list or it doesn't find any drives when I just type diskutil list. Apple MLH42LL/A-BTO Manufacture Part - MLH42LL/A-BTO Options - Customize your Macbook Pro to select: Condition, Hard Drive, Memory, Optional Windows OS and Battery. I am currently typing on this MacBook by Booting and using it over an External Drive I had laying around." Product - Used and Refurbished Macbook Pro 15.4-inch (Retina DG, Space Gray, Touch Bar) 2.9Ghz Quad Core i7 (Late 2016). I tried to use an used SSD of the Internet for this model and it doesn't work. "I have an EMC 2978 MacBook with an 820-00875-01 LogicBoard. After trying to fix the MacBook (A17) of my Aunt (which had water damage) I declared it to an total loss for now so I bought an replacement LogicBoard (which works fine) and a replacement SSD of Ebay because I bought the remaining MacBook bits off of her so I can thinker with them :-).īut here comes the Problem, the used SSD is not recognized! :-( Here's an copy and paste of an comment I wrote to someone on this forum (laziness strikes again):