How do I get past a blue screen after full restore from time machine and rebooting?

Wife had her hard drive replaced by apple, they reinstalled the os.  After boot up system questions, the option to restore everything from timemachine backup was selected.  System came up to login but would not take what the password should have been.  I rebooted the macine and it has not come back.

That;s really not enough free space... you can use a tools such as OmniDiskSweeper to find out where your large files reside and begin pruning (or copying to an external if they're files that you want to keep).
One thing is certain - if you're going to continue your current usage you're certainly going to need to install a larger boot drive.
Clinton

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