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Can someone please help
« on: March 18, 2014, 06:52:26 PM »
So here's the problem. Opened my MacBook Pro today and noticed that whenever it loaded up a video it would be extremely slow so I decided to run the software update for it. Well after that I restarted my macbook and tried to open my safari and no matter how many times I ran it would say safari quit unexpectedly. So I decided to do something which was reset safari in safe mode so it would work. Well sadly safari wouldn't even open up in safe mode so I decided once again to restart my laptop. Now my laptop is stuck on the apple logo and would not load up

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Re: Can someone please help
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2014, 07:21:24 PM »

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Re: Can someone please help
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2014, 07:36:44 PM »
Gonna try it now hopefully it works

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Re: Can someone please help
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2014, 08:17:32 PM »
Still not working is there any way I can tell that my harddrive crashed?

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Re: Can someone please help
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2014, 09:23:00 PM »
only to remove it and install a new one in it place first ck it / then try to run  cmd c with a boot os on it '' the 2nd vid shows how to how old is the mac yrs? ''

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Re: Can someone please help
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2014, 11:16:01 PM »
Sounds to me like some of your OS files got corrupted. If you hold the ⌘ and  R keys down while it's starting up, it should bring up some nice menus, from which you can do things like connect to WiFi and re-install your OS. Since Apple is retarded, you must be connected to the Internet in order to re-install. From there, just follow the prompts on your screen to complete the installation. [source: a brief jaunt into the Apple Support site] I would *highly* recommend that prior to doing this, you pull your HD out and hook it up to another computer (in safe mode) and back up your important files to a different drive.

Otherwise if that doesn't work, you should replace your HD like Ratt said. Beyond that I can't be of much help since I've never actually owned a Mac.

http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&product=&q=reinstall%20os&src=support_site.kbase.search.searchresults has some information if you want it.
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Re: Can someone please help
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2014, 05:52:59 AM »
possibly memory may have become faulty. something else to consider.
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Re: Can someone please help
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2014, 05:15:26 PM »
so reinstalled everything is new on the hard drive. Basically like a new laptop just have to get used to it

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Re: Can someone please help
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2014, 06:19:25 PM »
welcome to the pc world keep your drive clean and watch what you say yes to on your dl's  lol  now stop hacking on me in game bro  and I wont keep burning your hard drives up >:} just jk

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Re: Can someone please help
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2014, 08:09:37 PM »
Lol will do ratt but sadly imma keep hacking ratt *winkwink*

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Re: Can someone please help
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2014, 10:47:42 PM »
I do love me a happy ending to a story. Glad it all worked out! :)

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Re: Can someone please help
« Reply #12 on: March 19, 2014, 11:30:50 PM »
so reinstalled everything is new on the hard drive. Basically like a new laptop just have to get used to it
You could try something else for PowerPC's if you already made a back up of your data.
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Re: Can someone please help
« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2014, 01:40:14 PM »
Is there anyway I can restore my laptop to its original standards like having all my music, downloads and history etc.

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Re: Can someone please help
« Reply #14 on: March 20, 2014, 11:21:36 PM »
Is there anyway I can restore my laptop to its original standards like having all my music, downloads and history etc.

Not if you wiped your drive. Windows installs will put all the old stuff into a folder called Windows.old, but I don't think Apple has anything like that.

There are ways to recapture old data that has been erased, but it's super time-consuming and expensive. I had a Comp Sci major friend a few years back that did it for me for free, and what he had was basically a thing that would crawl through all the data on the drive byte by byte and look for data clusters that seemed to be some sort of recognizable file type and then dumped it all into another directory. The process took a few days to complete, and then I had a massive folder filled with everything I had ever put on the computer, none of it named or organized. In the end, I ended up just trashing the whole file dump because it was much faster to just re-install everything than it would have been to sift through all that garbage.

Your best bet is just download everything all over again, like you would if you had nuked your old machine entirely and got a whole separate system. It sucks, but them's the brakes.