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Macbook pro stuck white screen

My macbook pro screen just turned white and switch it off and on again, yet its still stuck on the white screen?

I tried reinstalling it but it just shows a blank white screen. Doesn't seem to be able to detect anything at all.

What am I suppose to do now?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Oct 14, 2012 9:32 PM

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Oct 15, 2012 10:30 AM in response to poppychix

poppychix wrote:


Hey thanks for your great help.

No problem!



poppychix wrote:


I reformatted everything. And it manage to start up again!

Great!!! But this brings up a thought for you to have some kind a backup strategy so you don't risk the chance of losing all your files if this happens again. Read on in my next post.

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Oct 15, 2012 10:33 AM in response to poppychix

I like the free demo of SuperDuperto make clones. It's free, Tiger&Leopard&Snow ready and is easy to use. If you buy the full version you can do incremental backups.

You should use Disk Utility to do a Disk Repair, as shown in this link, booted up on your install disk, before you make a clone of it.

I then partition my external disk, in Disk Utility, with a partition that is the same size , actually a tad bigger, as my system disk. I then use SuperDuper to clone my system disk over to that partition.

With a clone on an external FireWire drive (USB drives are not bootable on PPC Mac's but most are on Intel Mac's) you can bootup on it to do your repairs or just run your Mac anytime you have trouble with your main drive. Be careful, there are a few external FireWire drives out there that are not bootable on Macs. Check the drive's manual to be sure.


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