I have a MBP 2012 (First generation Retina). Its running El Capitan and I also bootcamp Windows 7 for games.
I was Win7 and rebooted as I wanted to go back to OS X. When it restarted it had a symbol on the screen that resembled a lightning bolt which I believe to be target disk mode? Anyway not sure how it did that but I held the power button down to do a hard shut down and then powered back on.
At that point (and its the situation I am in currently), I get as far as the Apple logo and progress bar, and it loads around half way along the progress bar and then shuts down.
Things I have tried -
Anything I can try (besides reformat) to make the Mac boot, even as much to do a Time machine backup and then I can reformat.
Any assistance greatly appreciated.
I was Win7 and rebooted as I wanted to go back to OS X. When it restarted it had a symbol on the screen that resembled a lightning bolt which I believe to be target disk mode? Anyway not sure how it did that but I held the power button down to do a hard shut down and then powered back on.
At that point (and its the situation I am in currently), I get as far as the Apple logo and progress bar, and it loads around half way along the progress bar and then shuts down.
Things I have tried -
- Disk Repair (first aid) - This fails with the message saying that it can't repair and that I need to reformat.
- Tried starting up in Command V to see what it is doing when it fails and the message I get says that the volume cannot be verified.
- I can still get into BootCamp though and I can still 'see' and access the OS X partition.
Anything I can try (besides reformat) to make the Mac boot, even as much to do a Time machine backup and then I can reformat.
Any assistance greatly appreciated.