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TVreporter posted just a few days ago, and his issue is still not solved.
But, yes, that would be one solution if you can't boot to the recovery system. Backup the drive, if you can, and try an erase, reinstall and restore from the backup. If your hard drive is failing, then the erase will probably fail, too.

Okay, making a bootable USB drive now, will give it a shot and see what happen. Thanks.
 
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