Mac won't start
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- doctor0
Yes, it sounds like your HD died. They don't last forever. Have you noticed any unusual noise from it lately? It might also be that the boot sector on your HD is corrupted, in which case you should reinstall OSX.
Good thing you got a back-up, right... Right?
- akrok0
time for a SSD...woohoo. :-) unless you need 1TB.
- SSD 120GB around $250akrok
- macsales.com ;-)akrok
- the new 27 inch iMacs are nice because they have 2 drive bays, ideal for a SSD+1TB setupernexbcn
- Apple's SSD are quite old tech and you cannot replace drives in new iMacs yourself like you could in older ones.raf
- gattocerber0
your hard drive have died.
same thing happened to me, you just lost everything you had there. unless you pay more than a thousand dollars to have a company save the data inside.
sorry, i know the feeling..- I have Time Machine backups, so that's not a problem. I'm more pissed I'll have to reinstall all the software.CyBrain
- oh good. i didn't have backups, it was bad.gattocerber
- ernexbcn0
Your hard drive might have died.
- Boz0
also.. you might have problems logging into your main user account on the startup screen.. I don't know if they fixed it in Snow Leopard but I know when I restore Time Machine backups to an empty drive it wouldn't let me log in even with the right password.. I think that keychain thing gets corrupted or something..
You will have to get into disc utilities and reset that account in order to boot.. so don't panic if you restore stuff nad you try to login and the login dialog starts shaking as if the password is wrong.. that happens.
- you can fix it like this:
http://support.apple…Boz - this is the problem I was describing:
http://discussions.i…Boz
- you can fix it like this:
- Boz0
Time Machine will bring EVERYTHING back.. it's that great..
You will however have to probably reactivate or reinstall apps anyways because your activations might be wacked if you change the hard drive nad stuff...nothing to do with a mac and more to do with copyprotection.
You can take a different empty drive now and start OSX installation and you can pick restore from TIme Machine and it will be restore your OSX to the point of a crash.. maybe few minutes prior.. it's amazing really..
- did it twice, with new new hard drive + new macbook pro. FANFUCKINGTASTIC!ntimm
- CyBrain
I have a 3 year old Mac Pro that won't boot up and continually gets the ? icon when starting. I booted from the installer and when I go to Disk Utility the main drive isn't even recognized.
If I install the OS all over again, will I be able to bring everything back with Time Machine or will I have to get my programs back with installers? Aside from that how screwed am I?