Long Grey Progress Bar at Boot Eats 38.7 GBs

[iMike360]

Hi,
I booted up my MacBook this morning and a grey progress bar appeared at the bottom along with the normal spinner. Well after this update installed (thats what Im thinking it was) it warned me I had no disk space left. A had 57% last night! What ever that progress bar did ate up 38.7GBs of space! If anyone has help to get back my disk space it would be nice. I only have 500MBs left.

 

[John Doe 57]

Usually a status bar at startup is a Firmware Update.

Good app to have to scan your drive and tell you what is so big:
http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/

 

[iMike360]

Situation Degrading Quickly

I did a scan and it didnt pick up anything big. I rebooted and the progress bar reappeared. After it reached 100% it disappeared but the normal spinner stayed for over 1 hour. It now wont boot into OS X so Im posting from Windows 7. Will call Apple tomorrow.

 

[John Doe 57]

I did a scan and it didnt pick up anything big. I rebooted and the progress bar reappeared. After it reached 100% it disappeared but the normal spinner stayed for over 1 hour. It now wont boot into OS X so Im posting from Windows 7. Will call Apple tomorrow.

If you can backup everything, you may want to reinstall OS X. This sounds like a Firmware failure.

 

[iMike360]

If you can backup everything, you may want to reinstall OS X. This sounds like a Firmware failure.

Ya I was fearing that, no one else has experienced thisÉ Wont do a install till after calling Apple since my Time Machine update is a little over a week old.

 

[aviafx]

New Issue?

I just installed a clean install of snow leopard, after partitioning my HDD for Windows 7 Ultimate SE (The ones us party pack people got..), and after installing 7 I get that same loading bar below my spinner on osx's boot screen.
I don't lose any HDD space, but boot time has been extended about five minutes..

I'm just considering reinstalling/reformatting again if I can't figure this issue out..