Morning All,
Firstly - let me say, yes i have looked and searched threads on having a grey screen and i have still not found the answer i need.
ok - here goes
My 2007 Macbook 15" recently froze while browsing the net, i did a forced shutdown.
Then when i turned the Macbook back on it had just the grey screen (no apple logo etc)
I CANNOT use any of the boot up commands (safe boot, SUM, verbose etc)
I did manage to use the Install disk to get Disk Utilities up and running however is had the following error
Checking HFS Volume
Cannot repair 1 HFS volume
or something similar.
I can get into SUM when i have the install disk in however when i try to fsck the hard disk it only checks for errors on the Install CD (with no errors obviously) - not the hard drive. For some reason it seems the hard drive does not get recognised (even though it appears in disk utility)
Is there any way i can either use SUM or Terminal to check for errors on the hard drive - bearing in mind i can only access these when i have the install CD in.
Any help would be much appreciated - i'm on this all day so i can answer questions etc
Many Thanks
Chris
Firstly - let me say, yes i have looked and searched threads on having a grey screen and i have still not found the answer i need.
ok - here goes
My 2007 Macbook 15" recently froze while browsing the net, i did a forced shutdown.
Then when i turned the Macbook back on it had just the grey screen (no apple logo etc)
I CANNOT use any of the boot up commands (safe boot, SUM, verbose etc)
I did manage to use the Install disk to get Disk Utilities up and running however is had the following error
Checking HFS Volume
Cannot repair 1 HFS volume
or something similar.
I can get into SUM when i have the install disk in however when i try to fsck the hard disk it only checks for errors on the Install CD (with no errors obviously) - not the hard drive. For some reason it seems the hard drive does not get recognised (even though it appears in disk utility)
Is there any way i can either use SUM or Terminal to check for errors on the hard drive - bearing in mind i can only access these when i have the install CD in.
Any help would be much appreciated - i'm on this all day so i can answer questions etc
Many Thanks
Chris