Sounds like the internal drive has bad sectors, I’d replace it with an SSD and clone the data over/restore from the last time machine backup
Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 13 Oct 2018, at 08:15, Rob Beattie <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's a long story - which I won't bore you this - but the result is that my > daughter's MacBook won't boot. > When switched on it has a kernel panic. > Holding down Cmd+ R loads MacOS Utilities and running Disk Utility reveals it > has four 'drives' > > HGST SATA Internal Physical Disk > and under that 'Macintosh HD' > > Disk images > Apple disk image Media > OS X Base System > > Trying Cmd+I on each of these in turn says that none of them is 'bootable'. > I've tried reinstalling the OS via the Internet but it wouldn't complete the > operation. Internet Recover ran overnight without any joy. > > Any thoughts as to my next move? I can start the machine using an external > disk (one from my old machine from when I upgraded to an SSD). > > Any help appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Rob > -- > -———— > Rob Beattie > Books | Copywriting | Web Design > http://www.robbeattie.com <http://www.robbeattie.com/> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
