My mac book only goes to the white loading screen with the apple on it and the circle that spins around and around and it wont stop i left it up for a few hours hoping it would just come up but it didnt please help.

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My mac book only goes to the white loading screen with the apple on it and the circle that spins around and around and it wont stop i left it up for a few hours hoping it would just come up but it didnt please help.

Posted on Feb 28, 2012 6:29 PM

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Linc Davis

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Feb 28, 2012 7:19 PM in response to campbellisfly

The following support article is somewhat outdated. Where it refers to booting from an installation disc, you should boot from your recovery partition (if running 10.7 or later) by holding down the key combination command-R at the chime.

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