Hi,
When i boot up my macbook, i find myself sitting at a blank white screen for a long period of time. eventually the screen turns to a grey background and OSX utilities opens up.
Can anybody explain why this is happening and offer any solutions on how i can get my macbook back to normal?
MacBook Pro
Open Disk Utility and verify disk. Press Command and R keys on boot, open Disk Utility and repair it if the Disk Utility shows a problem
Also, open the System Preferences and click on Startup Disk. Select your main drive and restart. This forces the OS to write which disk is supposed to be the startup drive to the PRAM.
Open Disk Utility and verify disk. Press Command and R keys on boot, open Disk Utility and repair it if the Disk Utility shows a problem
Also, open the System Preferences and click on Startup Disk. Select your main drive and restart. This forces the OS to write which disk is supposed to be the startup drive to the PRAM.
Ive installed my new hard drive. Im now sat at the MAC OSX Utilities screen. What do I do from here?
Did you fit the new drive internally and did you boot into recovery?
Go to Disk Utility and verify that the format is MAC OS Extended (Journaled), if it is not change it while you are in the utility.
Then choose reinstall OSX
If the option key was stuck down then the machine would boot to what's called "startup manager" which looks like this
If it's going straight through to the recovery partition then it might think the 'R' key or 'cmd + r' keys are stuck or it is saying I can't find a bootable operating system and so I'll take you to the only other thing I can find. Which in this case is the recovery partition.
Sounds like you may need to erase the partition in the recovery disk and re-install the operating system.
-Dib
I foegot to mention that while in the utility you must first click on the main Macintosh HD drive so that it's the drive you're looking to repair. Once you do this then the "verify disk" will show in the bottom right.
Bj226 wrote:
It might also be worth mentioning that I hear several beeps on bootup
1 beep = no RAM installed
2 beeps = incompatible RAM types
3 beeps = no good banks
4 beeps = no good boot images in the boot ROM (and/or bad sys config block)
5 beeps = processor is not usable
How many beeps do you hear?
No, you should not lose any data but that truly all depends on what the system has to do to fix the issues. Again, i think it's unlikely that you will lose anything. Hopefully it can fix everything in one swoop.
Bj226 wrote:
Im afraid I do not. :(
Wait for the repair to end.
If this data is important and the repair does not work shut the computer off until you can purchase some recovery software, don't try to boot unless the repair is successful.
Nothings happening at the moment, the 'invalid node structure' and 'invalid record count' messages have stopped. However I have heard a slight bussing noise coming from my macbook. the noise has stopped at the moment though, and the estimated completion time still hasnt changed.
No idea yet, we need to finish the repair and try alternative ways of accessing the drive, if we can
Whatever happens here, in future backup before things go wrong, recovery afterwards is complex and not guaranteed.
While you are still in Disk Utility go to the First Aid tab, select the drive (top entry in the sidebar) and look in the lower right of the box for Smart Status, what does it say?
Then select the partition (below the drive) and look for Format, what does that say?
Bj226 wrote:
Unfortunately not :(
That is also a good thing 🙂
At this point I doubt that this drive is going to revive, I would remove it (use it as little as possible until removal) and buy a new drive, and an external case/adaptor. Remove the internal drive and replace it with the new one, fit the ex-internal into the case. Using Internet Recovery you will re-install OSX to the new drive, boot the machine, plug in the old drive (now an external) and see what is there.
Post back.
If the old drive is still useable then make it your backup drive, if not you should buy a drive for that purpose.
Yes, with luck your files may still be there, but before you start moving them back post here again for a reliable (if not fast) method.
Order your drive from here (OWC), they are an excellent vendor, they also have good videos covering the drive installation. Go to the internal drive section, locate your model and look at the options. As always bigger and faster is better.
No way for me to answer that, it may or may not.
If you can't mount the drive there is little you can do, recovery software may or may not work, a Recovery Service may be better, but will be expensve (thousands rather than hundreds)
i have the same problem as above. my macbook pro just kept going off after turing it on for some time. using the net i tried every solution. first i verified it and then tried to repair it but it just kept going on and on and on. so i deleted Macintosh HD drive in the hope my macbook pro would work and now my problem is that when ever i turn on my macbook pro it goes straight to disk utility. i tried to install it using the internet but internet connection doesnt' work
can you help me. do i have to use an external disk or is there another way to reinstall Macintosh HD drive?
Macbook goes straight to osx utilities when booted up?
