Problem with early 2011 MacBook Pro. Circle with line
Im having trouble starting my MacBook Pro. I've been trying to troubleshoot the issue myself but am having no luck. When I turn on my laptop, it tells me to put in my password, then it tries to start up but changes to a circle with a line through it. I googled those symptoms and tried following some guides to reboot. Nothing seemed to work. I entered recover mode by restarting comp and holding command r. I attempted to reinstall mavericks so that I could restore using timemachine that I backed up a few days ago onto an external harddrive. When I goto reinstall mavericks, it only recognizes a partition that I made in my harddrive the other day. I suspect the issue I'm having is around this partition. When I launch disk utility the partition that I need to reinstall mavericks is not mounted and I'm not sure how to mount it. The other partition should be empty, I was trying to delete the partitons because I no longer needed them. (I originally wanted to dual boot ubuntu on mac but decided to just use a virtual box.) does anyone have any ideas about what I can do? If you need more info il try my best to help. Thanks