Mountain Lion booting up to utility

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So today I restarted my MacBook Pro and by surprise I ended up in Utilities.

I repaired the disk, started up with my main disk, erased RAM... doesnt work

Safe mode, doesnt work.

Booting up by holding down Option key, it gaves me 2 choices, my main disk and recovery. By chosing the main disk it takes me back to Utility.

All help is appreciated. Thank you in advance.

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012), Mac OS X (10.7.4), 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7//8 GB

Posted on Oct 9, 2013 2:33 AM

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Answer 1

Level 5

5,242 points

Sounds like there is some error that your recovery partition Disk Utility hasn't been able to fix. Your options:

erase your HD and reinstall ML

hopefully you have a backup of your critical documents.
1. if not, you could try mounting the HD in target mode on another mac OS X Mountain Lion: Transfer files between two computers using target disk mode
2. If you can get your boot partition to work, even briefly, back up those documents, and look for a crash log.

Another possibility is that your HD is starting to fail. If nothing else works, you might have to replace it.

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