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I bought a macbook core 2 duo off eBay needing a new hard drive and battery and right now I’m trying to test it with no battery or internal hard drive - just plugged in with the mag charger and with an external usb hard drive. I’m having a few issues installing OSX on the hard drive for now but that should be sorted soon however at the moment, when I plug in the hard drive and mag charger and press the power button nothing happens at all. The green light on the charger is on but that’s it. Is this because the external hard drive doesn’t have OSX installed on it yet, so the macbook doesn’t recognise it as a drive it can boot from? Or can this macbook not boot from a USB external hard drive? I’m really not sure.
Here are the different MacBook systems: EveryMac - MacBook Sadly your Mac can’t support the newer OS’s it can’t support 64bit services only 32bit (Maximum OS-X - 10.7.5 Lion) You’ll need to locate a copy of this older OS so you can prep either the external or internal drive. You are limited on what apps can run on this system and because the OS is old Apple no longer supports it so it can be risky on the internet and some HTML services won’t run on copy of Safari you have (look into getting Chrome).
