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catalina killed my MacBook pro

Hi all I have a 2014 MacBook Pro. Was running perfect with Mojave last night. I started the upgrade to Catalina and it’s now dead.

install process started ok and it got to the point of reboot. Now all I does is show the flashing folder with a question mark.

there are no boot chimes. I’ve tried to boot to recovery and that doesn’t work. Today I created a usb stick to boot from. Come home tonight and tried to boot with option key held down and it still doesn’t boot.

my MacBook is toast...

MacBook Pro Retina

Posted on Oct 8, 2019 9:27 AM

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guzzy92fs

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Posted on Oct 13, 2019 8:01 PM

Guys you are not alone, Catalina update is making a lot of computers unusable. Here is a collection of the cases all over this forum:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250713279

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250736933

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250720326

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250713143

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250719221

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250716157

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250716026

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250728927

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Feb 7, 2020 11:48 AM in response to LD150

”Poor me. Sold it for scrap on Ebay, bought another, moved on.”

Antarctica hit 67 degrees F today.

Your apology for a business model of designed obsoletion is killing us all, Peter.

LD150

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Feb 7, 2020 12:59 PM in response to Truthischeap

No. The guy who bought it repurposes the parts into working re-saleable Macs.

Stuff breaks.

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Feb 7, 2020 3:22 PM in response to Truthischeap

Why? Nobody on here can answer for Apple. I suggest you contact Apple Support directly and ask them. They are not here on the forum, as you know.

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Feb 11, 2020 6:11 AM in response to Maddienp

See my previous posts.

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Feb 27, 2020 11:18 AM in response to SkyStudio

Which part of that post do you want an explination for?

elton407

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Feb 28, 2020 12:42 PM in response to SkyStudio

Were you able to restore both MacBooks?

LD150

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Mar 4, 2020 1:10 AM in response to elton407

It's called getting estimates and you chose one company over another.

Any other conclusions are your opinion and probably litigable.

Mar 8, 2020 8:57 AM in response to LD150

Look at this video which seems to offer a way to fix the problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywvDgn7JR_c

BradSP

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Mar 28, 2020 1:16 PM in response to DaveGarratt

Great video! And multiple repairs done now without replacing the logic board at all.

Apr 4, 2020 2:32 PM in response to BradSP

So despite all the denials and deleted posts from the forum moderators it final comes to light that there is indeed a problem - its just so much work getting to this stage - hope the fix works.

catalina killed my MacBook pro