Q: 2009 MBP with Mavericks won't start up, won't back up
I have a mid-2009 MacBook Pro running Mavericks (slowly). Two days ago, it froze and wouldn't respond. I let it sit a while and then held down the power button. When I turned it back on, it got to the grey apple screen and then the loading wheel would run indefinitely. I shut it off and then on again, but to no avail. I looked online and found Linc Davis's answer:
Macbook pro won't startup. Stuck on apple logo with spinning wheel.
Pursuant to the advice there, I cleared an external HD, booted into recovery mode (which took a while, but eventually did happen) and the Disk Utility, and from there tried to transfer the 499.11 GB Macintosh HD partition of the 500.11 GB Toshiba HD to a slightly larger partition of my newly reformatted external HD. I waited a little bit (it told me I had 1 day and 8 hours remaining continuously, without change), and then it gave me an "input/output error" and stopped trying. I've since shut it down, not wanting to risk any action without getting advice here first.
I do have data on this drive that I don't have in my last backup and would like to save as much as possible. What are my options? What should I try next?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3), null
Posted on Apr 1, 2016 3:02 PM
Make an appointment at an apple store genius bar. Let them look at it. The evaluation will be FREE. Then you should be in a position to make an informed decision what to do next.
Ciao.
Posted on Apr 2, 2016 6:48 PM