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Hi everyone, I strongly believe that in life you should give yourself a second chance. in this specific case I found this Mac in the landfill near my house. I couldn't resist and took it home. I'll show you two photos. I tried it at home and realized that it started with Windows 10. Don't ask me...

I have a Macbook Air (A1466) (Catalina 10.15.6) that will not launch recovery mode or accept user admin login password. After exploring the password recovery link, I see that the boot volume is encrypted (Filevalut?), but I am unable to change the startup volume or erase the HD. I am unable to...

After digging deep into Open Firmware, I think I have discovered a method to booting from USB on PowerPC Macs that works flawlessly* on every NewWorld Mac made after 1999. This method doesn't rely on having a USB flash drive that happens to play well with Open Firmware or any externally powered...

Hi, I need help with my Power Mac G5! I tried to make a bootable USB for Leopard but when I go into the boot selector, the drive doesn't come up, when I try to launch the installer from Mac OS X, it just reboots into the OS, and when I try to boot into it from open firmware, it just shows the...

Not sure if this is the right place for posting this, but I recently got my hands on a 17" PowerBook G4 with a wiped hard drive. I have a .dmg of 10.4 that I'm trying to write to a USB flash drive so I can boot from it and install Tiger. I don't have access to any system running OS X so I can't...

I am trying to install lion on my white 2007 macbook via USB, the dvd drive is damaged. Please note, this is one of the models with 32bit EFI. When I received this macbook, it was stuck at the recovery screen. What I have tried: - Using special software meant to make lion install disks -...