El Capitan hangs at reboot
I have searched through the forum and on other websites as well but have not found any help. Have tried the following without any success: restarted my computer, restarted in recovery mode (Cmd + R) and opened up disk utility and ran first aid (none of my disks are damaged); reinstalled El Capitan. I give up - have tried for two days now to fix my computer without any luck.
What else can I do? When I start my computer after installing El Capitan it gets to the loading bar and just stops. Will I lose data if I reinstall Yosemite on it again?
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11)