I followed the instructions showed in this video below and after that I’ve my Serial Number issue fixed. It can’t be changed, so be careful while entering the Serial Number in this tool. Check the Serial Number in “About This Mac”.Follow the instructions and enter the correct serial number.Select the USB/Blank Board Serializer disk.Restart and hold option key to boot to USB drive when restarting.Make of note of your Serial Number on your MacBook Pro lower case.Restore the dmg image to USB drive using Disk Utility.Download Blank Board Serializer zip and extract dmg file ( click here – dropbox link).But think about – legality of using this software and associated risks, Apple warranty, bricking your MacBook Pro, taking backup of your data. I worked for me (MacBook Pro mid-2012 13″ non-retina), but can’t guarantee that it will work for others/other models. Word of Warning: Don’t proceed further unless you want to do it and take all the risk, including having a non-working MacBook. You can use this to do a serial number look up or report a stolen Macbook.

It was pretty helpful and I was able to fix my problem in just under 20 mins. Learn how to check your Macbook serial number inside the Mac OS operating system. I was pretty terrified, as that info is important to restore to OS X Lion (the OS X that came with this MacBook) or validate anything that needs to pass Serial Number to Apple Servers.Īfter some research, I found a solution – Blank Board Serializer.

Recently (I don’t know what I did) I noticed that my Serial Number is missing in “About This Mac” info. I’ve a Macbook Pro 13″ mid-2012 (non-retina) model running macOS Sierra 10.12.6.

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