Macbook Early 2009 fail

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Macbook Early 2009 fail

So i don’t know exactly whats the problem. Shrotly to say i deleted everything on my mac and tried to reinstall with a new ssd but when it starts up it shows and folder with questions mark. When i try to hold command and R it does nothing and get me to the same question sign folder. I tried alt+command +R nothing, shift+command +alt+R does nothing, tried to reinstall from an bootable usb when holding option key it shows anly white screen and mouse on it with no option to boot from any source

MacBook Pro

Posted on Aug 15, 2022 11:20 AM

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a brody

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Aug 15, 2022 11:23 AM in response to DaNubiu

The 2009 Mac does not support internet restore. It will only let you use command-R if you do not format or let your boot partition get damaged. You will need to a get a copy of the Snow Leopard retail installer disc, which does not say upgrade dropin OEM and says 10.6.3 on it with this label:

If you never made a bootable external drive or thumb drive that works on this model via cloning or direct installation.

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a brody

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Aug 15, 2022 11:25 AM in response to DaNubiu

The first Macs to support internet restore, needed a special firmware to get it installed:

Computers that can be upgraded to use OS X Internet Recovery - Apple Support

July 22, 2011 and later Macs all featured this capability without any firmware update.

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DaNubiu Author

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Aug 15, 2022 11:35 AM in response to a brody

Can i just buy a new clean dvd and burn to it os x snow leopard? From dmg file ?

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