MacBook Won't Start Up Past Logo And Spining Thing Below It
yeah the title says it all, i used software update yesterday to try to install the new update for the system, after downloading it said it can't install. i forgot the exact reason it said so but it did. so i tried it a few more times, and when that didnt work i restarted. and when it began to start up it made the startup noise and then went to the logo and loading symbol below it. it will not load beyond that. i have tried it 4 times, and i have let it sit for 30 minutes one of the times.
can anyone help me resolve the issue please!!!!!!!
12-inch iBook Mac Mini Black 60GB iPod Video,
Mac OS X (10.4.8)
yeah, i called support. they walked me through 3 other things before we had to do that. even when we got to that it couldn't repair it so know i am having to reinstall the OS. pain in the ***. thanks for the help anyways.
What error message did Disk Utility give when the repair failed?
I had a similar situation where the start-up stalled at the grey screen,
and was unable to repair it using Disk Utility. I got a
invalid node structure error. I used Diskwarrior 4 to rebuild the directory, and it worked!
Much better than a reinstall. If you choose that route, make sure you do
and Archive And Install, and click to
preserve network and user settings.
Pismo 400 Mhz Tiger 512MB 7500RPM 80GB Hitachi; 2 Ghz Rev B iMac G5 20" 2 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.6)