I’ve two outdated MacBook Airs: one from 2011 and one other from 2015. The 2015 Air boots wonderful, whereas the 2011 provides me the flashing folder lacking system icon on boot. I attempted booting it into restoration mode, and it asks for a password, which I am as close to to 100% certain I’ve appropriately, however once I enter it and press return, the password subject clears and nothing else occurs.
So I assumed I would use the 2015 Air to create a bootable USB drive with Excessive Sierra on it (the newest OS the 2011 will boot, in keeping with MacTracker). Plugging this into the 2015 Air whereas the Possibility secret’s held down appropriately provides me the selection in addition from the inner or the USB drive.
Nonetheless, doing the very same factor on the 2011 Air provides me the ineffective password display screen. Not holding the choice key down (hoping that, failing to seek out an inner boot drive it will look mechanically for an exterior one) brings up the flashing folder.
I am guessing maybe that making a boot USB from the 2015 will not essentially work on the 2011. Or perhaps the 2011 is solely a brick now. Is there something to my principle concerning the 2015 not creating an accurate boot drive for the 2011? Is there something I can do to carry the 2011 again to life by putting in a brand new OS on it someway?
