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.
Unfortunately not :(
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.
Ok, so with a bit of luck my files will still be there?
Also, what specific drive would i need to buy?
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.
Ok, thank-you for all of your help.
I will order the parts and post back here as soon as I have recieved them.
Bj226 wrote:
Ok, thank-you for all of your help.
I will order the parts and post back here as soon as I have recieved them.
I'll be here.
Would this be a suitable drive to buy?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Toshiba-PX1826E-1HE0-500GB-Series-Internal/dp/B008EWOA34
Unfortunately im not from the US, so i cant buy from the vendor you sugguested.
Why so small? buy larger (as large as you can is usually the best approach).
My son lives in London, he only buys from OWC (he learned) they ship anywhere.
Would i need to purchase an OSX install disk as well?
Bj226 wrote:
Would i need to purchase an OSX install disk as well?
No such thing, you will use Internet Recovery to download a copy.
Ok, I now have all the stuff I need. Can you please go through with me now what I need to do?
Hi,
I'll start again (apologies)
Remove the internal drive and fit the new one to the machine, boot into Internet Recovery,instructions are here and install Lion. Post back.
Im afraid I didnt know to get Carbon Copy Cloner :(
Bj226 wrote:
Im afraid I didnt know to get Carbon Copy Cloner :(
I misposted, please read the new version.
Ive installed my new hard drive. Im now sat at the MAC OSX Utilities screen. What do I do from here?
Macbook goes straight to osx utilities when booted up?
