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Mac not booting properly.

Had to force quit all applications in order to shut down. Now that shut down is complete will not boot. Tried clearing the NVRAM and booting to safe mode neither worked it still results to the apple logo for more than enough time (about 15 Min), I have tried using disk utility to verify disk no errors occurred. I have learned that I can reinstall the OS but I do not want Yosemite because it does not support the applications I want to run. I really do not want to lose my valuable data that is on the Mac nor do I want to be without those applications. I am fairly tech savvy but this one has me stumped and I'm not sure what I should do.

iMac (24-inch Mid 2007), OS X Mavericks (10.9.3), May vary, definitely Mavericks

Posted on Jun 9, 2015 4:51 PM

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Jun 10, 2015 12:36 PM in response to josh0525

This is my output when I run Repair on my internal hard drive

Verifying and repairing partition map for “ST31000528ASQ Media”

Checking prerequisites

Checking the partition list

Adjusting partition map to fit whole disk as required

Checking for an EFI system partition

Checking the EFI system partition’s size

Checking the EFI system partition’s file system

Checking the EFI system partition’s folder content

Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces

Checking booter partitions

Checking booter partition disk1s3Repairing file system.

Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.

Checking extents overflow file.

Checking catalog file.Checking multi-linked files.

Checking catalog hierarchy.

Checking extended attributes

Checking volume bitmap.

Checking volume information.

The volume Recovery HD appears to be OK.

File system check exit code is 0.

Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.

Reviewing boot support loaders

Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions

Updating Windows boot.ini files as required

The partition map appears to be OK

Mac not booting properly.

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