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Update: I’m still looking for help on this issue. Would a bootable DVD in external drive maybe work? I’ll try to give as much detail as possible. Someone gave me a macbook core 2 duo from 2009 I think. I don’t have installation DVD or any media. The optical drive does not work. It has a 120 Gb hdd and 2 Gb RAM. It was running mountain lion but I upgraded to El capitan. I am trying to replace the hdd with an ssd. I cloned the drive to the ssd over usb and could boot from the ssd when it was attached via USB. When I installed it internally it would not boot. I could select it with system configuration but it didn’t work. To make matters worse, the option key would not work to bring up startup manager during the boot process. In researching I read that reseting pram solved some issues like mine. Unfortunately after I did this the computer will not boot at all. I get startup chime and grey screen. Then it hangs. No apple logo. Nothing. Can anyone help me out here? Thanks.
Hello Richard Stead, I’m sorry to hear you are having trouble with your MacBook. Before you cloned to the new SSD, What file format was it? Macintosh computers are very particular about there storage. Also, have you tried reinserting the old HDD to see if it still boots from that?
