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Mac Get's Stuck at Apple Logo With A Loading Circle.

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LuckySpin

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Nov 11, 2008
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Hello guys, I'm not sure if this is where im supposed to post this thread but i found this thread here on the website.

https://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-562475.html

Well I was reading on that one, since the exact same problem he had, I have now. I turned of my computer and when turning it on again it got stuck in the apple logo with a loading circle in the bottom of it. I have tried booting it using CMD + S but nothing seems to be working. It does the same thing.

In the other guys thread, he ending up taking it to a Genius and they fixed it for him, I don't have warranty no more, so I would like to do it myself.

I have an old MacBook Pro that came with Tiger, I installed a 500GB harddrive with tiger and then upgraded to Leopard. So im not sure if that helps in things i could do with start up disks or something.

Right now i booted of my old hard drive which I have in an enclosure, i tried going into disk utility to check my 500gb hard drive but it tells me this. "The Disk '"Mac HD"' could not be unmounted." I also have it partitioned with Windows on the other half.

Could there be something I could do besides having to reinstall everything? Any help is appreciated. Thanks
 
try shutting it down (hold power button)

Then turn it back on while holding Command(apple key) + V


That should bring it into Verbose mode where it will display the loading processes, and it may give you a hint as to what the problem is.
 
ok thanks.. Let me restart and try that and ill be back with the results.
 
all i saw of any sort of error was Disk01: I/O Error Thats what i saw. I also got this image when I boot from my external enclosure.

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LuckySpin said:
all i saw of any sort of error was Disk01: I/O Error Thats what i saw. I also got this image when I boot from my external enclosure.
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Sounds like the internal hard drive is dying. I would make sure you have copies of your files ASAP, but DONT copy over any old backups you might have, since you might not be able to get a good backup now...
 
how do i go about doing this backup? can i just copy the files into an external? N if so how do i reformat?
 
also i have my hard drive partitioned and my windows works just find only my mac... so how can my hard drive be dying then?
 
Is there a way to un corrupt it? I booted from the leapord disk and then went to disk utilities from there and tried to do a repair, but then i got this error. VVVV so im not sure what to do now.. If i have to reformat the drive can i do only the apple partition of it.. or do i have to do everything? If i lose everything i lost it.. but how do i reformat it?

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mperkins37 said:
Most likely a bad HD better to be safe than sorry....
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so u think its my hard drive? Should i return it? If i want to reformat and install leopard again.. can i use the leopard cd or do i have to use my old tiger disks that came with my computer?

N how do i reformat?
 
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