I'm running Mac OS X 10.7 and can't boot because of kernel panic. I tried booting into safe mode and single user mode but it didn't work. I then tried to boot into recovery mode but it froze. What should I do?

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I'm running Mac OS X 10.7 and can't boot because of kernel panic. I tried booting into safe mode and single user mode but it didn't work. I then tried to boot into recovery mode but it froze. What should I do?

Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on May 23, 2013 2:20 PM

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greg sahli

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May 23, 2013 10:00 PM in response to cwccKML

Probability is very high that you have a hardware failure. You should get an external bootable drive (or startup with a bootable DVD if you can) JUST to prove that it's not the motherboard, but probably the hard drive that's failed.

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