Is this just a hardware fail?
Right here's the situation my macbook pro won't boot up when I try it goes to the regular booting screen (apple logo and spinning wheel) then the apple logo disappears after a while and it shows a no entry sign (circle with line through it). Ive tryed pram reset and booting into safe mode neither changed anything.
Also when I try to boot to the install cd half the time it goes into kernal panic and when it does load it doesn't see my harddrive it doesn't even show in the system profiler.
Don't know if this helpful atall but I have a windows bootcamp on it when I try to boot this I get to a screen saying volume is dirty it then hangs at some random percentage
Anyone have any clue what's happening?
Message was edited by: renlok
Hiya renlok,
welcome to discussions. Normally, when the "no entry" sign comes up, it signifies that the machine cannot find a valid boot disk or boot partition. That sign is not something you want to see.
Have you tried (with the Macbook OFF), holding the option key ("alt") and then pressing the power-on button? If you have a good boot partition, it will show this up.
There is also an apple article , you could explore.
Normally, some of your file structure (if corrupt) can be repaired using disk utility, and if your disk is failing, then the only option is to contact Apple to get it swapped for a good one.
Message was edited by: Alexandre
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