Q: Startup not working
Yesterday my iMac decided to freeze up with the beachball when I tried to switch applications. I had to hold the power button down in order to shut down. When I tried to restart I would get the Apple logo and a progress bar that took forever to go beyond half way. After several attempts, I let it sit for a few hours off. I tried again several times throughout the day to start up again. Some times it would stick on the apple and progress bar, one time it got to attempting to find the keyboard and a few times after a couple hours it would go to a black screen with the mouse pointer in the corner but I couldn't move it.
Today I got it started up in Diso Utility and tried to verify and repair. Both of which had errors. I tried restarting again and after a couple minutes of the Apple and progress bar it turned itself off.
I'm scared to even attemp another restart now. Is there anything I can do? I have most of my important files stored on an external HD but don't want to lose what is on the imac HD. Music, movies etc. Hopefully I could recover much of that from the cloud.
Help!
iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)
Posted on Jul 19, 2015 4:04 PM