I am worried now, only one more finger left. My MBP refuses do anything, and funny looking folder icon with a “?” is flashing. Power your MBP on, hold “Option+Command+R” to upgrade your MBP to latest OS X version. Trial-3: Apple support ( link) tell you to do a 3-finger salute mode i.e. Honestly, 10 years old MBP, I am not surprised. Gotcha #1: A message that basically says your computer is too old to Install OS X Catalina. your MBP will connect to Apple over the internet and install the latest OS X version on your computer. Power MBP on and hold “Command+R” keys together as soon as you hear the chime. Who has a backup for mac OS X Lion from 2010? No Bueno. But, I am out of luck, I do not have any backups. Trial-1 : Restore from a time machine back up. I bought a Samsung EVO SSD 500Gb to begin with. What can I do with a free-bee? Well, for kicks I can resuscitate and see what is so good about a MBP.

No Hard drive, SuperDrive intact, a few screws missing in the back - only one screw in place actually. I recently got my hands on a MacBook Pro 15' from Late-2010. I have been a long time fan and user of Linux since forever. I use windows desktop for my living, a Intel NUC Skull canyon with NVMe SSD.

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