Hi, Two things to start with. If you still can't start up, go on to the next bullets: * Diagnostic mode is not accessible to VoiceOver. * Did you attempt regular startup without the peripherals?
Things you can try in Recovery mode: * Leave the USB drives disconnected until you get it working. * Select the Disk Utility option and verify that your Disk is visible. * If it is, try the Repair Disk Permissions. * Quit Disk Utility and go under the Apple menu to Startup Disk. Choose your Macintosh HD. * If it still doesn't start up, go back into Recovery mode and choose "Re-Install OS X". Normally, you should not lose anything during the re-installation process unless there is major problems with the disk. Hopefully, you have a backup on one of the external drives so that everything is covered in case of the worst. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Oct 14, 2014, at 5:37 PM, Rachel Feinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kristeen, > > I don't know if this is accessible, but in looking up keyboard shortcuts for > starting up a Mac if something's not working properly, you can try holding > down D at start up. It will start the apple hardware test, which may tell you > something about your drives if they are connected. > Rachel. > On Oct 14, 2014, at 4:03 PM, Kristeen Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Earlier today I noticed that my computer could not see my two external >> drives which were connected via USB. I decided a reboot was in order, since >> most of the time this fixes that type of an issue. There was no voice over >> when the computer restarted. I was unable to tell whether the computer >> booted all the way or not because of having no speech. I tried rebooting >> several more times, but the result was still the same.I disconnected all >> peripherals, and was able to boot into recovery mode. I went into disk >> utilities and repaired the disk. There seemed to be no problem with the >> disc. The computer will still not reboot. >> >> Is there anything else I can try in recovery mode? Is there any other way I >> can reboot the computer that will give me other diagnostic tools? Thank you >> for any help anyone can provide. >> >> Kristeen Hughes >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
