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- Motherboard
- Dell Optiplex 3060 MFF
- CPU
- i5-8500T
- Graphics
- HD 630
I have a Lenovo M700 Tiny i3-6100T integrated gpu only, with Sierra installed and working perfectly for a few years. I decided to run the security patch for it. After the patch, it no longer boots. Attached is the screen cap before it continuously reboots itself over and over. I tried booting into recovery, but it would get stuck about 70% on the progress bar and just sit there.
Previously I never applied any updates once an install has been completed exactly due things like this happening. But in a thread I posted about not updating to High Sierra or later, my hesitation was questioned, and was assured it would be perfectly fine. So I thought I'd start with just a security update.
Anyways, enough of the backstory, I have 2 paths, I can either start anew and try to install the latest macOS it'll support, or repair this install. Either case requires that I pull some files off of the original install. But when I put the SSD in an external enclosure, neither my High Sierra nor my El Capitan system would even recognize the drive in Disk Utility. I tried different cables and enclosures. Is there a trick to getting a boot drive to be recognized? If it's a simple repair, I can just get it booted then pull the files, then maybe wipe and reinstall to latest and greatest. Is anyone willing to help?
Previously I never applied any updates once an install has been completed exactly due things like this happening. But in a thread I posted about not updating to High Sierra or later, my hesitation was questioned, and was assured it would be perfectly fine. So I thought I'd start with just a security update.
Anyways, enough of the backstory, I have 2 paths, I can either start anew and try to install the latest macOS it'll support, or repair this install. Either case requires that I pull some files off of the original install. But when I put the SSD in an external enclosure, neither my High Sierra nor my El Capitan system would even recognize the drive in Disk Utility. I tried different cables and enclosures. Is there a trick to getting a boot drive to be recognized? If it's a simple repair, I can just get it booted then pull the files, then maybe wipe and reinstall to latest and greatest. Is anyone willing to help?
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