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Laptop Cannot Boot
Al:
--- Quote from: btraill on September 21, 2015, 05:53:21 pm ---Hey Al, sucks to hear!
Have you tried booting into any of these modes? (recovery, safe boot, etc):
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201255
Do you get any initial display of a boot screen or does it stay black? Do fans start to spin-up when you press the button/can you hear anything inside powering up on boot?
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If you have iMessage or Kik I can send you a video clip of exactly what happens. I press the power button normally to boot it up and it has buzz sounds (normal), then there's a loading bar which only fills about 15% before it completely shuts down again. If reattempted it will do the same. Won't be better progress on a good minute or anything.
edit: I just attempted to go into safe mode and also startup manager (holding shift or option on startup) and it doesn't do anything.
I found a video on YT of a guy showing the same problem with his. He says it loads for a minute but it's really like 10 seconds. Only difference is I have a loading bar not a spinner.
Al:
I managed to get it to something else, single-user mode, by following some random YouTube comment: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oo424dn4hftflym/photo%20sep%2021%2C%2012%2057%2056%20pm.png?dl=0. ##
This was the result: [fucking pasting is not working let me try PMing it to you]
The error on the bottom says "Boot task failed: fsck-safe," so I Googled that and I found this article: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/155209/macbook-pro-2011-rebooting-on-startup. Not sure where to go from here.
Keith:
mbp late 2011? if thats the one i have the same model and it blows i've had to bring it back from death countless times. It's even caught on fire before.
also post 1500
also also I had the same problem as you I THINK. I had to buy a new harddrive and replace it. There's a way to save your files if you have a certain piece of equipment and a friend's mac to use - or give it to some IT people and they'll be able to officially diagnose it. But if it is the same problem that I had you're almost better off getting a new computer because mines been downhill from there. ALSO ALSO ALSO: If all of a sudden it works and you can get back on, immediately back up everything, because it will crash again.
Al:
My shit has already been fcked up but it was running til Saturday. CD drive doesn't work and battery too old (only lasts like 20 mins before you have you plug in charger). Also it got really inconvenient when I had to scour my hard drive for things to delete. Only has like 250 GB..
btraill:
Sounds like a failing harddrive TBH... :(