Macbook stuck on loading screen

My mac is stuck on the intro with the grey apple the bar line and the white back round it has no loading wheel though and I tryed shutting it down and cutting it back on but it was on the same screen and it's been on the screen for 2 days how do I. Fix it

Hello my Mac book labtop is stuck with a loading background.

Have you tried a safe boot? Reboot holding the shift key down. This will do some disk maintenance in the background and starts without any login items. If this works, try a normal reboot right afterwards.

Ok, well here are some other steps that you can perform that may get you going again... If you go through ALL of these steps and you still have no luck then you will need to get your hands on an installation disc.

- First thing to do is to reset the PRAM: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

- Start the machine in single user mode by holding down "s" on startup. then run a disc repair by typing in "/sbin/fsck -fy"

If you get a message saying 'the system was modified then run the test again. you need to keep running the test until you get a message that tells you that your volume appears to be OK.

- Remove any third party RAM and unplug anything from the machine that doesn't need to be plugged (printer, external HDD etc).

If none of these steps work then unfortunately you will need to hunt down an installation disc.

Hi my problem is that i get the flashing folder and apple. When i tried doing these steps u say, i still get the flashing folder.

When i put the Shift key to start the mac, it stays like that forever.

If you can make a free apple store genius appt. and they will handle it. I had the same thing happen. I hope you had your stuff backed up because its a 1000000 times easier to fix if you do. But if you dont depeing on the issue your data might be recoverable unless the harddrive has gone

ok So my macbook is stuck on the loading screen with the gray apple and spinning circle under it. i held down command option p and r and let the chime sound 3 times yet it is still stuck in loading. WHAT DO I DO???

If you are using a MacBook Pro early 2011, you may want to check this discussion...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4766577

I had this same error /problem, and I initially thought it was a software problem from all the apple forums, but learned that in MY CASE it was in fact the hard drive cable, which was coming slightly loose upon moving the laptop... this happened after installing a new hard drive (memory upgrade). If you have this issue or continue having this issue, make sure that all your mounting screws are in your hard drive (especially after a hd replacement) and that your hard drive cable is not loose. Even if it becomes slightly loose upon moving, your computer will go back to a grey screen upon startup. A small amount of tape securing cable to hard drive seemed to fix the issue I was having (you must make sure there will be no loosening of the cable with movement, etc), but you may opt for a new hard drive cable. You can try saving any data on the drive, but then you must reinstall the hard drive and reinstall MacOS after using command +R and erasing the disk.