Mu macbook pro 2012 wont start it goes into this i cant get anything help please
my macbook pro is only on safe mode, was working fine then plugged in battery charger and it came up with a funny screen and voice asking what language i wanted i did disc repair but it said it didnt need it all i can get into is the help line PLEASE HELP
Adam,
if preserving your files is worth your effort, then copy them to an external drive; if not, then don’t. Once you’ve preserved whatever you care to, go back into Disk Utility from Recovery mode, select your internal disk from the left-hand side of the window (probably the first item in the list), and select the Erase tab on the right-hand side. In the Format dropdown, select “Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)”; in the Name textbox, enter the name for your reformatted volume (“Macintosh HD” is typical); and then press the Erase… button. Once the erasure is completed, exit Disk Utility, and then select Shut Down from the Apple menu. When you power it up, OS X Internet Recovery will download your MacBook Pro’s original version of OS X from Apple’s servers, and then reïnstall it. When it restarts after the installation, run Software Update to bring it up-to-date, and then copy your preserved files back to your internal disk.
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