How about a new hard drive? Saturday, August 14, 201010:14 AMDan [email protected]
>Yesterday the hard drive on my MacBook Pro went AWOL -- directory >scrambled so badly that Disk Utility couldn't repair it, hard drive >volume wasn't being mounted, no drive found at startup, etc. But drive >was visible in Disk Utility and I was able to re-partition it and >restore from my Time Machine backup of the night before. > >After restoration, all files and apps and system seem to be in place, >but I can't boot up in anything other than safe mode (shift-boot). If I >try a regular start up, not holding down any keys, it displays the gray >screen with the apple and the spinning "cog" for a while and then goes >to an all-blue screen and hangs there. If I safe boot, I get a normal >start up, but of course without extensions loaded. > >I've tried the usual fixes: zapping pram, repairing permissions, >verifying the disk, etc., but still get this blue-screen hang on a >normal boot. Anyone have any suggestions for fixing this? Does anyone >know exactly what's going on in the system boot process at the time that >the blue screen appears? (In a normal boot the blue screen only displays >for a second or two, then the cursor appears, then the desktop. In my >case I get the blue screen and never get to the cursor.) > >Thanks. > >Dan > > > >_______________________________________________ >MacGroup mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
