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StreetsOfRage
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Any body with a Mac had this problem.


So i updated my computer last night it says "do you want to restart bla bla bla" I say no I will later. then today I restart my computer. I starts to update with the apple logo screen, and the spinning wheel, and the progress bar at the bottom. then it stops about a quarter of the way and stays on the spinning wheel without the progress bar, my mac never boots up and will stay at the spinning bar forever.

+k for help -K for trolls
13 years ago
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EastCoast315
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1. Sell Mac
2. Use money to build a real computer
3. Install gentoo
4. .....
5. PROFIT

Optional step: stop being rich
13 years ago
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eheath
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Does it do it every time? Why don't you take it to the apple store? sounds like your HD is having a hard time...
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StreetsOfRage
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I will not sell my mac considering it was my sisters and she died last year...
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StreetsOfRage
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yes it happens every time can't even get in the login screen. And right now I am in my windows partition. so I do not think it is having a hard time.
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eheath
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ah hmm well maybe you just need to reinstall? can wipe just one partition? i dunno what else to tell you except take it in.
13 years ago
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StreetsOfRage
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alright thanks. and plusss I can see all my mac files from my windows partion. so I think i have a corrupt update.
13 years ago
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esotericjive
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I build a hackintosh, and I was downloading the 10.6.8 combo update. I left to go get some food while it downloaded. I guess my internet crapped out or something in the middle, but it didn't download all of the update. I tried to install it, wrecked my installation. Luckily I had a backup from the night before. (good to backup hackintoshes every 10 mins)
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StreetsOfRage
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did you have the same problems as I did?
13 years ago
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Stose
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his problem is with a mac.
13 years ago
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StreetsOfRage
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he was trying to be funny.
13 years ago
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Inline.
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Apple sucks at updating their products.
13 years ago
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LittleFoot
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Yeah I would just take it in. Make sure you ask if they can somehow make a backup. You don't want to get some dumbass that will just wipe your harddrive clean without telling you
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jb616
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my imac did that. i got 12 gb memory in it aftermarket, installed it and was running good n fast until i shut it down one night then the next morning it just got stuck on the spiny wheel. ended up being a fried hard drive. took it to apple store, paid i think $270 to fix it bc its just out of warranty. sucked balls. if its a macbook take it to a apple store for them to diagnose it to be sure but just get a hard drive n fix it yourself if thats what it is. if its a imac apple has to fix it for you bc they pull the screen apart. hope this helps.
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Rachy
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This is from one of my old blog entries, don't feel like rewriting it.


"Reboot holding down the Apple and "s" key to reboot in single user mode. Once a bunch of text loads, type fsck -fy Now press return. A ton of stuff shows up and it repairs what it can. It says to type reboot and it should reboot. Mine did not and I had to do a hard restart. But, after the hard restart and a very prolonged blue screen, the hard drive made a comeback. Given, finder is taking its dear sweet time to do everything, but all the rest of the apps seem to be doing fine once opened. Also after a few restarts, everything just takes significantly longer."


It's a bit of a harddrive cureall.
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Malcolm
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Apparently you can take off the screen pretty easily.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cHMHzq5E5I

There was shit behind the screen when I bought mine and I was going to try and do it myself but didn't want to fuck up and void the warranty.
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jb616
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they tried that "s" button screen at the store and it just stayed in the blue screen. i kinda gave up and had them just replace the hard drive.
13 years ago
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duhamelski
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arch is better than gentoo, because you can either compile from source to get a prebuilt binary
13 years ago
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StreetsOfRage
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thank you very much. I will try this out right now. I will give a update if it works. 10/10 for trying to help.
13 years ago
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.AR6rider.
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Happened to me with the latest system update I did to mine. Took it to the Apple store and they had to reinstall my OS. No hard drive problems. Luckily I back everything up on an external hard drive so everything was fine, but it was literally the same exact thing. It would boot up to the Apple logo and just spin the wheel forever and the progress bar would never fill.
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StreetsOfRage
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update. it did not work. thanks for the help though. Guess I am going to apple store.
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