MacBook not booting, goes to a white screen then blue screen
I have some precious photos of my first dog on this laptop, who meant the world to me, I am most concerned on trying to recover those photos, recovering the macbook would just be a big bonus! So if anyone knows how to transfer the storage a few tips would be so greatly appreciated!
I'm sorry for the awful title, I am just generally very confused at the situation. Purchase the laptop early 2011, and used until late 2015, the battery was replaced once during that time period and I had no other issues with the laptop. I swapped to a MacBook Pro 13' and the laptop was not in use from late 2015 to today.
Flash forward to Wendesday, I found the laptop, charged it and tried booting it up. Instead of it booting up, it wouldn't. I tried an apple hardware test by pressing 'h' at startup and was told that the battery was a hardware issue.
Today I received the equipment needed to both change the battery and upgrade the RAM. After performing both upgrades and then booting the laptop I was greeted with the startup sound, the apple logo on a white screen, then the apple logo on a white screen with a pinwheel, then less than 30 seconds afterwards the screen turns dark blue and every ~15 seconds the screen flashes to a bright blue for less than a second then reverts to the dark blue.
On Wendesday, when I tried to charge the mac, it would not hold a charge and the light indicator was green. Today, it is holding a charge and I can power on and keep the laptop running without being plugged in, and the light indicator was orange.
Thank you so much for any help in advance!
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