Can't get into OSX! Need serious help here!
So I've seen some folks have had this problem but I haven't found a solution in any previous posts about this. Anyway, I have a bootcamped MBP. Everything has worked fine for the past 3 months but today I restarted my computer, booted to Windows, did some stuff there, restarted and booted to OSX. I got to the blue screen and the "Starting OSX" box popped up for a quick second and then dissappeared, leaving me with a pointer and a blank blue screen. I've tried everything I've seen in other posts about this. It does the same thing when I boot in safe mode as well. I booted up in verbose mode and it stops on the login app. I booted to the install disk and reselected the Mac HD to no avail. Windows still boots fine and it boots to disk fine, but refuses to start up OSX. Is there a way to reinstall OSX without losing my 3+ months of data that I've aquired? That would suck so bad to lose everything on my HD. ANY help would be appreciated. Thanks for reading!
Restart with the left Shift key held down and see if you can get to the login window; if you can't, perform an Archive and Install of Mac OS X, which won't delete items you've added to the computer. If you can get to the login window, restart with the Command and S keys held down. Enter the following:
mount -uw /
cd /Users
mv username/ olddata/
exit
Replace username with the short name of your account in line 3, unless you've moved your home folder, in which case you will need to change the paths in lines 2 and 3; your computer should then start up and log in, but your account's data will have been reset to the defaults. To get your data back, open the Users folder on your hard disk followed by olddata, and then drag documents and other items outside of the Library/Preferences/ folder to your current home folder. One of the items in Library/Preferences/ was likely responsible for the issue.
If you are able to get to the login window but can't log in after moving your home folder, reset the NetInfo database and then move the entire home folder, including Library/Preferences/, to the current home folder.
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