I have a macbook pro the currently will not boot. My computer gets as far as the "bong" sound, with the white screen and the apple logo, with a loading circle (the segmented ring, not the beach ball) but will go no further. I have run a disk repair from the disk utility on my installation disk, and have thought about archiving and reinstalling, but I am unable to check the "preserve users and network settings" box in that dialogue. I have tried telling it to boot from the hard disk from within the reinstall disk menu. but that does the same thing.
I st all the permissions on my entire disk to allow my account to read and write to it after discovering I couldn't access my guest account files from my administrator account. I'm starting to think that may have caused this problem. Also, my bluetooth keyboard quit working right before I had this problem, and gave me a series of error messages, none of which I understood. After that, I shut the computer down, restarted it and ran into this problem.
Does anyone know how I can fix this, or at last be able to reinstall and keep my personal settings? I am worried about losing a large amount of work that I haven't backed up in about a month, as well as my music library, the backup disk for which recently crashed.
Thank You.
I st all the permissions on my entire disk to allow my account to read and write to it after discovering I couldn't access my guest account files from my administrator account. I'm starting to think that may have caused this problem. Also, my bluetooth keyboard quit working right before I had this problem, and gave me a series of error messages, none of which I understood. After that, I shut the computer down, restarted it and ran into this problem.
Does anyone know how I can fix this, or at last be able to reinstall and keep my personal settings? I am worried about losing a large amount of work that I haven't backed up in about a month, as well as my music library, the backup disk for which recently crashed.
Thank You.