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My Macbook Pro 2012 has been running fine as a secondary device just for some testing etc for ages...battery died a long time ago so it's just been running off the plugged in power cord...no major dramas. I do normally just leave it running or in sleep mode...I rarely turn it off.
This last weekend, I had it switched off from Friday afternoon. Tried turning it on last night – nothing. Tried a few key combinations online but still absolutely nothing. Used a different power cord...no good. I also resorted to taking the battery out and seeing if it would start while plugged in...all no good.
My question is, if I bought a new battery, what are the chances it would boot up or does it sound like something more serious? There is some data on there I'd like to recover, but it's not super critical.
Without a battery, and plugged in to the power cord, shouldn't it still power on?
If there's no chance of it ever booting up gain, is it likely all my data is gone, or is it possible to take out the HD and get someone to download?
- I've seen some MacBooks just stop like that with no clear reason. At least with a 2012 you can pop out the SSD and put it in a (special) external case.evilpeacock
- Thanks...if it has a macos and boot camp partition, could you extract data from both? It’s mainly the windows data I’d want.BusterBoy
- The data is likely recoverable, with the right case to house and power it.i_monk
- Isn't there a secondary watch style battery in there somewhere... for the internal clock / PRAM? Might be worth googling around. Could be a quick swap.Centigrade
- did you unplug the power cord when turning it off? my mbp12 did the same, but after I plugged it in and let it 'charge' for some time, it fired up normally.uan
- I would switch the battery. Probably right dead. It won't boot with a dead battery.rootlock
- I thought they still boot if you completely remove the battery...as long as it's plugged in?BusterBoy
- Likely a logic board failure. Data is recoverable but will cost between $150 and $250. I went to an authorized apple service Center and had the data back in 2 hcolab
- ^ Or just remove the drive and put it in an inexpensive external drive enclosure. It's easy to pull the drive from these machines.Josev
- I own a mid-2012, I installed a new battery and high speed drive. Took less than an hour.Josev