• New hard drive. And it won’t load the bootable usb. Just gives a grey screen after first progress bar. So it can’t be the hard drive. Something else. Bet it’s the graphics card, already had the logic board replaced under replacement scheme. Ffs

    Which made me remember my main mac hard drive is encrypted. That’s why it wouldn’t show up on the windows machine, but the non encrypted one would.

    Time to go buy a new laptop. Those logic boards are £600 or so.

  • Surely even an encrypted HDD will show up on another machine in something a bit lower level than the file manager. Like the BIOS, Device Manager or Disk Management utility in Windows or Disks utility in Ubuntu or similar?

  • Yeah it shows in disk manager. But I can’t get it to show in 3D party hfs reader.

    I don’t have a 2nd Mac at home. That’s my issue. My 2nd machine is windows, which makes it complicated.

    I’ll plug it into a friends and boot from it the unencrypt and copy the stuff off.

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