Thanks for the quick response Sam No, it doesn’t boot to recovery. Its on `El Capitain` so it looks like a new hard drive. Do you provide such a service or do I drive along to the place over the road from PC world ?
Regards Keith > On 21 Nov 2015, at 17:20, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are you able to reboot it holding the command key (cmd) and R on the > keyboard? Does it boot to the recovery partition? > > If not, either your Mac is on OS X 10.6 or earlier and will need to be > reinstalled from a 10.6 disc. Or your Mac probably has a faulty hard drive > and can't load the data to boot the computer and reinstall OS X. > > If it does boot to the recovery partition, select to reinstall a copy of OS X > and see if that helps. > > If you need to replace the hard drive, best to go for a solid state drive as > they're much faster than regular drives. > > Regards > > Sam > > > > <http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> > <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> > <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> > MacAmbulance Ltd. > Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > > Sam Mullen ACMT > +44 (0)7747778022 <tel:+44%20(0)7747778022> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 <tel:8466597> > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in > error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > > > On 21 Nov 2015, at 17:19, [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > > I have followed various `self help` actions posted on some `problem solving` > sites but cannot get my iMac past a white screen. It is used very little > spending most of its life in `sleep` mode. > When I have needed it it has worked perfectly and i`ve rather taken for > granted that it always will! Until now! > Has it died of boredom and neglect? > > Are there any idiot-proof ways to restore it to life. > > I am mostly housebound having a fairly full-time `caring` function, i.e.:- I > see no way of carrying it along to Churchill Square, my own mature age and > health issues also being a deciding factor. > > Thanks, Keith > > PS, I am a SMUG member but as I`ve never asked anything before I`m not sure > if Ive gone about asking for help correctly. > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug > <http://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug > <http://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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.
