Hi, i am a novice Macuser and i am using the old macbook laptop model A1181.The screen has turned blue and shows a message "your start up disk is full remove some files".I do not know how to remove files since the screen is blue and no icon is showing.
MacBook Pro, iOS 7.0.1
Try starting up with a safe boot:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
That often will create enough space to get at the HDD.
If that fails, then you may try Target disk mode:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT1661
Ciao.
Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks' Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.
None of this will work unless you are able to restart the computer.
how do you solve a blue screen with "start up disk is full"
