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Q: queston mark at start up macbook pro

I recently upgraded my software to El Capitan on my MacBook Pro.  It worked fine when I did the update.  I came home a few days later and had a folder with a question mark on the screen.

I then turned the power off and restarted while holding Command R to restart in recovery mode.

Now all I get is a screen with the apple logo and it gets stuck loading about 3/4 of the way through.  It eventually comes up with a screen stating "launch failed and your computer is restarting because there was a problem"  It just keeps doing this over and over....

What can I do?

 

Straight to apple care?

 

There is also a clicking noise coming from inside the computer as well... What is this?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Nov 7, 2015 10:09 PM

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