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On Sep 21, 2011 5:39 PM, "Ron N LA Salsa" <ronald_naka@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a Macbook Pro Unibody and the hard drive is NOT recognized by the
system. I can boot externally from both USB and CDRom.
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> The drive is good because if put into an external docking station it boots
fine.
>
> Disk Utility does not see it either. The drive is getting power and
spinning, but the system is not recognizing it.
>
> Cables are OK used on from another Mac.
>
> What else can I do?
>

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I have a Macbook Pro Unibody and the hard drive is NOT recognized by the system. I can boot externally from both USB and CDRom.

The drive is good because if put into an external docking station it boots fine.

Disk Utility does not see it either. The drive is getting power and spinning, but the system is not recognizing it.

Cables are OK used on from another Mac.

What else can I do?

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taking the unit to Apple is the best bet, as they can answer all your questions in terms of what you can upgrade and how far. can always go to apple web site and discover what can and can't be performed on unit.

backups are always a great and brilliant idea, no matter the situation. better to carry an umbrella and not need it, than to get caught in the rain and wish you had the protection.

humor leaks out every now and then. can't help myself. 

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Hi.
I have a MacBook Pro I would like to update but I'm not quite sure how to go about it,
or how much of an upgrade I can actually do. Any help would be appreciated.
It's running OS X 10.4.11, has a 2 GHZ Intel Core Duo, 512 MB 667 MHZ RAM.
I think I can take the RAM up to 2000 MB.

If I upgrade the OS do I need to back everything up ? Is this something {upgrading} that
I can do myself or should I take it somewhere and have a pro do it?
Is it better to go to Apple, or to a place like Tekserve in NYC ?
Thanks in advance.
Mick

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I'm working on a friend's laptop and after replacing a failed harddrive, the system will not power up. I pulled out the new drive and tried booting the install cd, no power. What could have happened?

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The last time I encountered similar problem was due to faulty system board and I scrapped the whole lappy, just too expensive to repair without valid AppleCare.

Cheers
IVOR

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On Sep 16, 2011, at 7:58, Ron Dragotta <rondragotta@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wrong, worn out from dealing with this. Managed to boot in single user
> mode but only display up briefly, now dark screen again. Can not boot in
> safe mode. Sounds like it reading DVDs that you load but nothing. Also
> managed to boot up by CMD+R but no longer can do that either. The display
> seems to alternatively work and not work.
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> Will probably wind up bringing it for someone to take a look at.
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> Ron
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> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Glenn Gutierrez <yah@glenngutierrez.com>wrote:
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>> That doesn't sound like it's booting from the OS DVD. Unless that's what
>> you're calling "Safe Mode"?
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>> Safe Mode is a special boot with no extensions or extras, but (usually)
>> still from the same internal hard drive.
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