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I get a crossed out circle and it shuts off. What can I do?

I wiped my macbook pro using a command in terminal. After the wipe. I get a flashing folder with question mark. I load the OS X disc. I boot up holding down "C". Then I get a crossed out circle and then the macbook pro shuts down. I tried doing a PRAM reset, a SMC reset with no results. I tried doing internet Recovery holding "R" on startup and when I connect to a wifi network, it freezes or gives me an error. I made a Recovery Disk Assistant on a flash drive and it still gives me a crossed out circle and shuts off. I tried a different hard drive and still the same. I got a HDD with Mac OS X preinstalled and put in in the macbook pro. It still turns off. I thought it was the HDD bought I tried different working HDDS and still gives me the crossed out circle. I can't get into disc utility nor internet recovery. Help.

Posted on Apr 1, 2016 1:01 PM

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Apr 5, 2016 10:54 AM in response to my ginger

I created a disk bootable flash drive with el Capitan. It gave an error about it is not verifed although it did allow me to access disk utility. My friend let me borrow his macbook pro. I Just cloned his hdd to mine in disk utility. I was able to get a external sata connetor and power source. I Hooked it up and selected restore. After that I popped it back in and it worked! Thanks for all your suggestions.

I get a crossed out circle and it shuts off. What can I do?

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