i have intalled lion sucsessfully the day it was rellesed and it worked well since then,
yesterday i shut it down and it doesn't boot it's just stuck on apple logo and the spinning circle in the middle
please help
i have an important project should of been done before this weekend
my device is imac 21.5" with i3 proccesser
8 gigabyte ram memory and 500gb hard drive
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
Hold the power button down until it turns off, then try to boot again.
not working i tried twise
and i have allot of important files in the hard drive
It's possible your HD has failed or the installation was corrupt. Try restarting, when you hear the tone hold down the Option key on your keyboard, choose the Restore Drive which should now be installed. In it run Disk Utility to Repair the internal HD. Run it several times to ensure no errors were found or if found they were repaired. If you continue to get errors plan on getting the HD replaced. Once Repair Disk indicates the computer is OK try to reboot normally, if it still fails the reboot as instructed earlier and let the Restore Drive re-install Lion.
Hopefully you have been backing up your computer, if you have not you may have lost the data and will have learned a difficult lesson on why backup is critical.
lion start up stuck on apple logo and the spining circle
