Crashed Mac pro

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I have a macbook pro Core i7" 2.0 15 that has refused to work, when i switch it on all i get is a flashing folder with question mark icon, i have tried installing the El-captin OS x through a flash USB drive made bootable using TRANSMAC, POWER ISO..etc but none of them worked. please any one with a workable solution on how to do this. when i make a bootable USB, i plug it in, switch on the mac, press down option button but the USB drive doesn't show out.
 

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Hello and welcome.

Sounds like the bootable El Capitan USB flash drive wasn't created properly. Do you have a friend who has a Mac?

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Thee is one more thing you could try. If the OS on the iMac is at least Lion (OS 10.7), or anything higher/newer, there should be a hidden Recovery Partition on it. This link describes how to boot to that partition, and what is on it:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314

Assuming you can boot your machine to that, you can use Disk Utility there to analyze the drive.

By the way, did you purchase the iMac brand new?
 
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That's the main problem....i don't have access to another mac. How do i do this with windows pc
 

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Unfortunately, I am not very familiar with PCs/Windows, so I am not sure it is possible. Since Install OS X El Capitan is actually an application package for Macs only, you may have a very difficult time finding a solution.

Sorry I can't point you in the right direction.

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Thanks a lot to all you guys that contributed to this thread. I was able to fix the mac using a wifi connection. Had to download an re-install d mac os from Apple server. Working perfectly now.
 

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