Sounds like it could be a bad sector on the drive, try rebooting holding down cmd+V until the screen goes black with white text, do you see anything similar to disk0s2 I/O error?
Regards Sam -- MacAmbulance Sam Mullen 07747778022 [email protected] > On 30 Oct 2014, at 09:41, Ashley Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My 17" MacBook Pro is in trouble. On Tuesday it was working ok. Then I > accidently allowed the battery to run down. On Wednesday morning I plugged it > into power and restarted it. The apple logo on grey screen came up as usual > flowed by the rotating icon. And it remained that way for a long time. So I > restarted it again. Same thing. Except this time I left it for an hour. Still > no further progress. So I did a safe boot pressing power and shift. The > machine restarted and the grey horizontal bar appeared. It seemed to be > booting ok. The after about a minute or so the bar disappeared and seconds > later the machine shut down. > So I then restarted using just the power button. However it seems to > automatically go to the safe boot screen for about a minute and then powers > down. > I've repeated this process a number of times and the same thing happens every > time. > Since then I've tried to start using power/ control/command. Tried to reset > the PRAM. Tried to reset the SMC (nothing at all happens) > So at the moment whatever I do the machine starts with a safe boots screen > for approx a minute and then shuts down. > I fear the worst but am hoping for the best. Please can anyone help diagnose > the problem from my description and suggest a course of action > Thanking all in anticipation > Best wishes > Ash > > > Sent from my iPhone > Sent from my iPhone > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" 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/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
