Q: Sierra will not mount my Macintosh HD

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BroKenneth

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Q: Sierra will not mount my Macintosh HD

I installed Sierra on my Mac Pro early 2011. It will boot to home screen, but I cannot open any applications. I ran disk utility at startup, discovered Macintosh HD unmounted. I mounted it, ran diskrepair. Still nothing. Will not mount Macintosh HD at startup. Any advice?

Posted on Sep 28, 2016 7:38 AM

I have this question too

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lllaass

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Just how did you do this "I ran disk utility at startup, discovered Macintosh HD unmounted"

Did you boot to Recovery?

What exactly happens when you try to open an app?

- Try resetting the SMC and NVRAM/PRAM

Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295

About NVRAM and PRAM

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063

- Try starting in Safe Mode

OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262

- Try logging in as another user

Posted on Sep 28, 2016 7:41 AM

Q: Sierra will not mount my Macintosh HD

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by BroKenneth,

BroKenneth Sep 28, 2016 7:44 AM in response to lllaass
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Sep 28, 2016 7:44 AM in response to lllaass

Yes I booted to recovery, chose the disc utility option, chose the mount option for Macintosh HD.
When I try to open an app, I get the "beachball" icon and it just spins and spins and spins.
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lllaass Sep 28, 2016 7:54 AM in response to BroKenneth
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Sep 28, 2016 7:54 AM in response to BroKenneth

Try my other suggestions. If still problem then:
- Boot to RTecovery and reinstall the OSX
How to reinstall OS X on your Mac - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904
- If you do not have a backup use disk utility to restore the internal disk to an external disk so you can try to recover data.
Then format the startup disk and do a fresh install of OSX
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BroKenneth Sep 28, 2016 8:21 AM in response to lllaass
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Sep 28, 2016 8:21 AM in response to lllaass

Thanks. One question. while firevault was encrypting my hard drive, i shut down my laptop to take it home without realizing firevault had not completed. Could that be my problem?
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by lllaass,

lllaass Sep 28, 2016 8:03 AM in response to BroKenneth
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Sep 28, 2016 8:03 AM in response to BroKenneth

Maybe but you are supposed to be able to shutdown when the initial encryption is in progress with no problems when yo rebot.
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by BroKenneth,

BroKenneth Sep 28, 2016 8:40 AM in response to lllaass
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Sep 28, 2016 8:40 AM in response to lllaass

reset the NVRAM and that solved my problem. thanks.
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