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MacBook Pro won't start up properly

I work in a school and one of my users brought her MacBook Pro that I believe is running Sierra. Anyway, when you power it on, the apple comes up and the progress bar moves slowly towards completion, then it gets about 1/2 way then the screen goes white. I tried all the white screen options I saw in apple support, but it doesn't get far enough to allow me to run anything, disk utilities, download a new OS, it just sits in the white screen with nothing happening. Any suggestions? It feel like the disk has a bad spot or something preventing the device from completing its power up cycle.


Thank you,

OLPHAndy

Posted on Jun 4, 2021 6:42 AM

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Posted on Jun 4, 2021 7:03 AM

OLPHAndy wrote:

I work in a school and one of my users brought her MacBook Pro that I believe is running Sierra. Anyway, when you power it on, the apple comes up and the progress bar moves slowly towards completion, then it gets about 1/2 way then the screen goes white. I tried all the white screen options I saw in apple support, but it doesn't get far enough to allow me to run anything, disk utilities, download a new OS, it just sits in the white screen with nothing happening. Any suggestions? It feel like the disk has a bad spot or something preventing the device from completing its power up cycle.

Thank you,
OLPHAndy



If your Mac starts up to an Apple logo or progress bar

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207019




If your Mac starts up to a blank screen (white, black, gray, or blue)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210905


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Jun 4, 2021 7:03 AM in response to OLPHAndy

OLPHAndy wrote:

I work in a school and one of my users brought her MacBook Pro that I believe is running Sierra. Anyway, when you power it on, the apple comes up and the progress bar moves slowly towards completion, then it gets about 1/2 way then the screen goes white. I tried all the white screen options I saw in apple support, but it doesn't get far enough to allow me to run anything, disk utilities, download a new OS, it just sits in the white screen with nothing happening. Any suggestions? It feel like the disk has a bad spot or something preventing the device from completing its power up cycle.

Thank you,
OLPHAndy



If your Mac starts up to an Apple logo or progress bar

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207019




If your Mac starts up to a blank screen (white, black, gray, or blue)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210905


MacBook Pro won't start up properly

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