HI there, this morning my sons MacBook Pro (late 2011 500GB HDD - Yosemite) was not booting up after many attempts. The progress bar at boot up would not commence progressing. I read a few Google tips and figured I would try Recovery mode which I did then with Disk Utility did a Verify Disk test. It indicated some errors and “needs repair”. I pressed the Repair Disk button and left it to itself and that indicated the repair was successful. Then I selected Reboot on Startup disk which also succeeded. I did need to log into iCloud again which wasn’t necessarily a surprise. So it all seems fine now but I wonder is this the start of a failing HDD? He has a Time Capsule Backup which hadn’t backed up for a couple of weeks (my kids insist on slamming the lid of the MBP shut when they walk away which interrupts the backup so it doesn’t ever get a chance to complete unless I intervene!!).
So backup is completing now. With my other son James a couple of years back I successfully replaced his internal 500GB HDD with a 250GB SSD (supplemented with a 1TB external for Photos and iTunes libraries) and upgrade to 8GB RAM Because it was very slow. It all worked fine just slow. This sorted it completely and now a very fast 2011 MBP. Should I do the same for Tim’s MBP? Regards Pete -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
