Gray Screen of Death, Harddrive full?

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Gray Screen of Death, Harddrive full?

Hi all,

I have a 2011 MacBook pro that has been gray screening. I ran fsck etc but nothing seems to work. It had been running sluggish for awhile, but the straw that broke the camels back was when my girlfriend tried to transfer an 80gig video file to it... The hardrive came with 750gigs of space, and I'm sure I'm getting pretty close to that, though when I start up in disk utility it says I have atleast 420 gigs of free space. At one time I think I partitioned the disk but I removed the partition in disk utility after it started gray screening. Any suggestions? Should I wipe the drive? blah.

Thanks,

Alex

MacBook Pro

Posted on Dec 31, 2013 3:51 PM

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OGELTHORPE

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Dec 31, 2013 4:04 PM in response to miskat77

It is not clear to me if you can boot your MBP or not. If you can, open Disk Utility and determine how much space is on the Disk and if it is partitioned.

Ciao.

If you are getting the 'gray' screen, refer to this:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5282

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miskat77 Author

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Dec 31, 2013 4:25 PM in response to OGELTHORPE

with disk utility it says there are 419.55gigs of space available and that the disk is not partitioned. However the Macintosh HD does say it is Partition 2. I dont know if it should say partition 1, but it seems strange that it wouldnt have reset to 1 when I eliminated the partition.

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OGELTHORPE

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Dec 31, 2013 4:51 PM in response to miskat77

Clearly it indicates that you have more than 80 GB of free space. I would suggest that you open Disk Utility>First Aid and run Verify and Repair.

Then look at this trouble shooting article for other possible remedies:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3521

Often third party applications can be a cause of slow performance, especially so called performance/cleaning applications as well as Anti Virus applications. Both of these are not necessary.

Ciao.

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