ChrisW381
Active member
Hi guys so a bit of a long shot but here goes ... I have a 2011 (I think) MacBook Pro. It died as a result of a catastrophic failure of the logic board! So replaced it with what was said to be a 2009 one. So all fitted well. Here is my problem it has no system at all and a formatted 250 Gig internal drive and I believe is a DVD multi drive. So tried to download the Lion software on the machine in Disk utility mod, it connected to the internet with any problems without success as it says its looking for apple validation?? tried the various key hacks on start up and nothing. Purchased a so called bootable DVD with Mountain Lion OSX and it seems to read the disk and .... nothing just the flashing folder and ? So I have been told that it may need Snow Leopard but for the life of me I cannot seem to make a bootable flash drive or DVD with it on. Any step by step advice would be much appreciated as the MacBook is very close to the skip!
Thanks in advance
Chris
Thanks in advance
Chris