Hello all, so the other day I got a Macbook from my buddy for free because he said he accidentally formatted the Drive and now it won't start and if I could fix it I could have it. So I turned it on and took out a recovery stick for Yosemite that he also gave me and tried to boot. The unit did not respond at all, chimed, went to white, then went to black with the system still running.
When it booted I tried to holding command+R and then rebooting and holding Option, finally I tried booting in with Gparted to maybe reformat the drive thinking maybe something was wrong with the tables in the drive but it won't even give me the boot menu. I'm not that experienced with Apple stuff so I would like to know what else I can try to make it see an external drive with Snow Leopard or maybe something newer on it. It would be a really nice gift to give my 6 year old niece for xmas as she wants a laptop and this might be a good first computer for her.
When it booted I tried to holding command+R and then rebooting and holding Option, finally I tried booting in with Gparted to maybe reformat the drive thinking maybe something was wrong with the tables in the drive but it won't even give me the boot menu. I'm not that experienced with Apple stuff so I would like to know what else I can try to make it see an external drive with Snow Leopard or maybe something newer on it. It would be a really nice gift to give my 6 year old niece for xmas as she wants a laptop and this might be a good first computer for her.