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  • Can anybody offer any advice pls. My father in laws Macbook crashed or he locked it out by getting the password wrong too many times. It asked for some key to unlock and fortunately the person I bought it from at work remembered it so it's booting into recovery mode.

    I'm reasonably good on Windows recovery and messed around with Ubuntu / linux etc but have no idea where to start on the Mac.
    I can get in to disk repair and see disks etc.
    No backups etc but if I re-install over the internet connection is there an option to keep data and re-install the OS?

    Thanks

  • I'd take the disk out and transfer the files he wants to keep. Not sure that the recovery os thing will go to the OS on the HD or the one that came with the machine.

    Have the OS on usb if you need them.

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