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Spewky
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Hi,

I was trying to turn my Apple laptop on and it shows up with a white screen with the apple symbols and has a loading bad below it... Once it gets full it turns itself off... I'll post an image of it.

I don't think many people on his forums talk about macs but I have no clue what is wrong with it and if anyone does know what is up, please help... Something similar has happened before and it was something wrong with the boot drive. Problem is macs don't show much that is useful and don't show you your problem, just does stuff b it's my work computer.

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What Model? Do you have a DVD Drive? If yes, insert the disk when the PC is powered on, the reset and press and hold C.

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Try holding Command (⌘), Option, P, and R right after it turns on, it'll reset the NVRAM. Might do the trick.

Doesn't seem to be working... It just keeps doing its thing. I was trying to attach a photo but I'm on my ipad and it's being a pain in the butt.

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What Model? Do you have a DVD Drive? If yes, insert the disk when the PC is powered on, the reset and press and hold C.

It's a MacBook Pro 13 inch without retina. I don't have the disk for it though. It is mountain lion or whatever is just before Yosemite...

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It's a MacBook Pro 13 inch without retina. I don't have the disk for it though. It is mountain lion or whatever is just before Yosemite...

 

Command(the flower thing) + R should be Recovery mode. If that doesn't work, I would guess the HDD is dead. Do you have a 2nd mac?

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It's a MacBook Pro 13 inch without retina. I don't have the disk for it though. It is mountain lion or whatever is just before Yosemite...

That's a sign of a bad drive. If you didn't back anything up you screwed dawg. About all I can say. New SSD and fresh install of Mavericks perhaps?

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Command(the flower thing) + R should be Recovery mode. If that doesn't work, I would guess the HDD is dead. Do you have a 2nd mac?

It's not the first time this has happened. Last time this happened it was the boot drive or something like that they called it but they could plug it into a computer and restore some of the files... Don't have a second Mac though... Well I do but ifs ancient software. I'll just bring it to a computer place and get it fixed.

That's a sign of a bad drive. If you didn't back anything up you screwed dawg. About all I can say. New SSD and fresh install of Mavericks perhaps?

Yeah, probably bust. Last time they could get some of the files back.
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It's not the first time this has happened. Last time this happened it was the boot drive or something like that they called it but they could plug it into a computer and restore some of the files... Don't have a second Mac though... Well I do but ifs ancient software. I'll just bring it to a computer place and get it fixed.

Yeah, probably bust. Last time they could get some of the files back.

 

I replaced a SSD on a Macbook Pro before, it is easy.

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