Cant start up. keep seeing logo only.

Cant turn it on. Only see apple logo.

Hi there reen fr sfo,
I would recommend taking a look at the troubleshooting steps found in the article below if you are unable to boot up past the Apple logo.
Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup
-Griff W.

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Apple sent a 150Mb OS X software upgrade to my powerbook last night, which downloaded successfully, but it quit during installation and gave an error message saying it had been put in the trash.
Since then the mailbox lost its settings and now they are replaced it wont show any messages, although it shows they are in the mailboxes; applications such as Word wont start due to a "shared library error"; Safari quits if I try to access any website including Apple. On clicking "Software update" it tries to load and then quits and prints an error message to send to Apple.
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Hi Saudi Software Engineer,
Just a quick thought. If nothing else will work, try booting from your Mac OSX install cd (holding down C during boot up when your cd (1) is loaded) and trying to do an "Archive & Install". It will keep all your documents, etc, but it will revert your system to the pre-update state. Maybe this will help....
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Booting From An OS X Installer Disc
1. Insert OS X Installer Disc into the optical drive.
2. Restart the computer.
3. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
4. Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple
logo appears.
5. Wait for installer to finish loading.
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1. Be sure to use Disk Utility first to repair the disk before performing the Archive and Install.
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
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2. Do not proceed with an Archive and Install if DU reports errors it cannot fix. In that case use Disk Warrior and/or TechTool Pro to repair the hard drive. If neither can repair the drive, then you will have to erase the drive and reinstall from scratch.
3. Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When you reach the screen to select a destination drive click once on the destination drive then click on the Option button. Select the Archive and Install option. You have an option to preserve users and network preferences. Only select this option if you are sure you have no corrupted files in your user accounts. Otherwise leave this option unchecked. Click on the OK button and continue with the OS X Installation.
4. Upon completion of the Archive and Install you will have a Previous System Folder in the root directory. You should retain the PSF until you are sure you do not need to manually transfer any items from the PSF to your newly installed system.
5. After moving any items you want to keep from the PSF you should delete it. You can back it up if you prefer, but you must delete it from the hard drive.
6. You can now download a Combo Updater directly from Apple's download site to update your new system to the desired version as well as install any security or other updates. You can also do this using Software Update.

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Hi,
Start the notebook in Safe Mode and let Windows fully load. Hold down the Windows key and press R. In to the Run box type msconfig and hit enter. In the following window, click the Start up tab, remove the tick next to each start up item and then click Apply to make the change. Restart the notebook and see if it now boots normally. If it does, re-enable one start up item at a time, click Apply and reboot to check if it still runs ok. Keep doing this until you encounter the problem and you will know the last program you set to start is causing the issue.
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:)- I canceled the update from Snowleopard to Lion by cleaning my keys ^^. Hit the wrong key i thing. Now i'm very weird ...only can start in Windows and dont know how to get my Lion Update now...Cant start in Mac OS X (Snowleopard) now :((

Hey Folks...i'm totally ****** off !
^^
I canceled the update from Snowleopard to Lion by cleaning my keys ^^. Hit the wrong key i thing. Now i'm very weird ...only can start in Windows and dont know how to get my Lion Update now...Cant start in Mac OS X (Snowleopard) now
Please tell me what i have to do know
greets
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Target mode...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
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/sbin/fsck -fy
Repeat until it shows no errors fixed.
(Space between fsck AND -fy important).
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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