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Q: HELP!! My late-2013 MacBook pro won't load past black screen

It started last night. My MBP froze, but I could move the cursor around the screen. When I'd bring the dock up there was a normal arrow, but as soon as I moved it back over the screen where the program was open, it would change to the color wheel loading cursor.


So I did a hard reset (held the power button for 5 secs) and tried to restart it.

The start up sound chimed and the Apple logo on the black background came up, with a progress bar underneath. It stopped around 50% after about 3 minutes of loading and that's as far as it would get.

I tried to boot up into safe mode but it seemed like it wasnt even trying to, as I got the same result as before with the logo and status bar.

So I tried cmnd-r to see if I could use time machine or reinstall the OS, but it wouldn't load any backups, and when trying to reinstall the OS, it said I didn't have enough free space to do so.

 

I haven't the faintest idea what to do. Any suggestions?

MacBook Pro with Retina display

Posted on Feb 8, 2015 6:25 AM

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