How do i get my macbook pro to surpass the spinning wheel of death, once i turn it on, it stays on that screen with the spinning wheel of death

Everytime i turn my computer on it stays stuck on the apple with the spinning wheel

You likely have a failing drive or some sort of network issue that's delaying the operating system so it's showing the spinning beach ball while it waits.
It's likely a very serious problem you will need to address.
1: Determine your users files if they are backed up off the machine or not as those are not replaceable, OS X and programs are.
This is your options if the machine or drive is dead.
My computer is not working, is my personal data lost?
This is your possible recovery option
.Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
2: Hold the Shift key down on a wired or built in keyboard for Safe Mode, this disables some things hopefully to get you in and do manual backups to a external storage drive (do not use or only trust TimeMachine as it has been known to restore corrupted data or not at all)
Most commonly used backup methods
3: Once your data is off the boot drive you can run through the Steps to determine if it's a hardware issue (Hardware Test, Disk Utiltiy check), then run through possible software issues. Or if it's a network issue.
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
Diagnosing network issues
4: Sometimes a almost 100% filled boot drive will cause the issues your seeing as the computer is trying to find space for swap memory and can't locate anymore.
This can assist if you can get into the machine to see what your drive space or other slowdown issues, then off load large files like Movies or Pictures to a external drive and reboot.
Why is my computer slow?
5: If it's a hardware issue then you can have the drive replaced (if it's that) or take it into Apple for a free evaluation.
Install/upgrade RAM or storage drive in Mac's
If you need more assistant see if any of these tips can assist.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents#/?p er_page=50

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