MAcbook Air wont start

[ScottPaananen]

I have an old MAcbook Air, When i turn it on it see the apple logo and the loading circle. The circle just spins. I was unable to get into recovery mode ( Control + command + R), But i was able to get into the HDD selection mode ( hold Control). I do see my HDD as an option, but nothing happens when i select it, the same thing happens. i see the apple logo and the circle just spins.

Are there any tools i can download on my windows machine and copy to a USB to repair or troubleshoot he HDD.


Please let me know what i can do.

Thank you

 

[Raz0rEdge]

Do you have an idea of what version of macOS was on there? It needs to be Yosemite and beyond (if I'm recalling correctly) to have the Recovery console. MBAs have SSD instead of spinning media, and yours seem to be good enough to start, but perhaps not well enough to continue.

Using another Mac (not Windows) you can grab the installer for macOS and create a bootable USB drive with DiskmakerX and boot into it. From there, you can try to repair the SSD and failing that, try to re-install macOS. If both of those fail, then the SSD has failed and you'll have to replace that. I believe MBAs (not sure if all of them or some of them, iFixit will help with this) have the SSD on a stick that can be replaced/upgraded as opposed to having the SSD on the logicboard itself.

 

[ScottPaananen]

I do not have access to another mac to do that, i only have a windows machine. Is there anything i can do from there?

 

[Raz0rEdge]

Unfortunately, there isn't a whole lot you can do from a Windows machine.

 

[ferrarr]

Try Apple Hardware Test, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201257.

 

[ScottPaananen]

Try Apple Hardware Test, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201257.

Thanks for letting me know about this, i got into the mode and trying an extended test.