Im not sure whats wrong? Help please!!!!!
So I woke up this morning, went over to my laptop and it wont start up.
I pressed power, and it begins to turn on. The screen turns white and it starts loading. Then my computer screen goes black. It begins to turn on, screen turns white, starts loading, goes black. Finally, it is able to get to the login screen. I type in my password and it doesn't unlock. I am 100% sure I typed the correct password but I just sit there typing it over and over trying to get it to work. I then notice at the top, right, corner there is a "Safe Boot" is bold red letters. I9 look up how to get out of "Safe Boot" and get excited because when I follow the instructions its no longer there, but its still regecting my password. I m not sure what to do now...
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
That model shipped with Mountain Lion, there won't be any DVDs.
OP should restart with Command-R to boot from the Recovery partition.
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