It says performance would be slow when it's verifying the disk but is it normal to be completely frozen? Maybe because it's in safe boot, which is already slow? Also the hard drive is 750GB.
I ran it on safe boot to repair disk permissions because I kept getting the spinning wheel of death at start up possibly due to some impatient installing/reinstalling. Then I figured I should click Verify Disk as well, which I now figure is something I shouldn't have figured to do. I can't stop it from freezing because the freeze does not permit me to stop verification via the Stop Verify button. I assume a hard shut down would be unsafe.
The screen's backlight is up all the way and has become unresponsively bright. The caps lock light seems to be working fine though. It's only been 45 minutes but it's really late and I'd like to go to bed. It felt like it's been frozen for an hour and a half but lucky for me I am able to tell when it started to freeze, because the time is frozen.
So is it normal for Verify Disk to freeze up your whole computer? I hope it's normal. Apple Care is asleep and I'd like to be asleep soon as well.
Edit: I went to sleep for a bit then woke up and decided to force quit and boot in the recovery partition. Repair disk took a minute and a half. Well at least that part of my problem's solved; a very small part. Although it makes me wonder - My impatience was probably how I got into this mess in the first place but I would have saved a lot of time if I were impatient and hard shut down a few hours ago.
Edit #2: Problem solved. Reinstalled Lion via the recovery partition. Got to watch the sun rise. Good night.
I ran it on safe boot to repair disk permissions because I kept getting the spinning wheel of death at start up possibly due to some impatient installing/reinstalling. Then I figured I should click Verify Disk as well, which I now figure is something I shouldn't have figured to do. I can't stop it from freezing because the freeze does not permit me to stop verification via the Stop Verify button. I assume a hard shut down would be unsafe.
The screen's backlight is up all the way and has become unresponsively bright. The caps lock light seems to be working fine though. It's only been 45 minutes but it's really late and I'd like to go to bed. It felt like it's been frozen for an hour and a half but lucky for me I am able to tell when it started to freeze, because the time is frozen.
So is it normal for Verify Disk to freeze up your whole computer? I hope it's normal. Apple Care is asleep and I'd like to be asleep soon as well.
Edit: I went to sleep for a bit then woke up and decided to force quit and boot in the recovery partition. Repair disk took a minute and a half. Well at least that part of my problem's solved; a very small part. Although it makes me wonder - My impatience was probably how I got into this mess in the first place but I would have saved a lot of time if I were impatient and hard shut down a few hours ago.
Edit #2: Problem solved. Reinstalled Lion via the recovery partition. Got to watch the sun rise. Good night.
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