Q: Unable to boot up into OS X installer.
Hi, this morning when I woke up, my iMac was acting very slow (I should mention it was not completely shut off during the night, it was in sleep mode, however). Every click would take around 10 seconds to register, I got fed up of trying to close open programs and such and forced the computer to shut down, I was not able to do it through the computer's interface, because of how unresponsive it was. When I tried to start it back up the progress bar moved very slowly, usually it takes up to 10 seconds to get to around 50% and then the rest finishes very quickly. This time, however, it took a similar amount of time to get to 50%, although a bit longer than usual, and then the rest took probably around 30 minutes, it did reach 100%, but it simply stayed there, for about 10 minutes and I gave up patience. I tried booting up in safe mode and all sorts of other things, nothing worked so I thought I'd just install a fresh os x. So I did, I downloaded the additional files and all of that, once it was finished, the computer proceeded to restart and most likely boot into the installer. But this time it gets stuck almost at the beginning, it takes like 2-3 minutes for the bar to move like half a centimeter, and then it just stays there. I don't know what I can do, I tried safe-mode but it doesn't seem to be working for some reason. What can I do?
iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
Posted on Jul 26, 2016 8:39 PM