My mac is dying

[Twilcx]

Hi
I started my Mac up. And the apple logo showed the cut straight to a circle with a cross in it.
I am grateful for any suggestions

 

[Fishrrman]

Looks like:
- problem with the internal drive
- problem with the system software -on- the drive

You need to tell us more before we can tell you more.

What Mac?
What year was it made?
What OS was it running before this happened?
Do you have a backup?

 

[Twilcx]

Looks like:
- problem with the internal drive
- problem with the system software -on- the drive

You need to tell us more before we can tell you more.

What Mac?
What year was it made?
What OS was it running before this happened?
Do you have a backup?

Thanks
I don't currently have a backup

Looks like:
- problem with the internal drive
- problem with the system software -on- the drive

You need to tell us more before we can tell you more.

What Mac?
What year was it made?
What OS was it running before this happened?
Do you have a backup?

Thinks it was running mountain lion
I don't have a backup
Think it was made in 2012

 

[McGiord]

Boot in single user mode or verbose mode. Google it.

 

[JohnDS]

Can you boot into recovery mode by booting while holding down Command-R? If you can use Disk Utility and see if it will repair your drive.

 

[Samuelsan2001]

Yeah looks like your hard drive has died, without a back up you could have lost everything. As others say try to repair the disk and then do an immediate back up. Then it'll need a new hard drive to be honest.