MacBook, low on memory, won't boot up completely

My old and proud macbook is maxed on memory space...which is why I assume it is not booting up completely. I turn it on and it goes into just the lovely outer space milky way image...and stays there.
Is there any way I can get it to launch all the way on....even if this memory availability is the issue?

You don't mention in your post what version of the Mac operating system you are using. That would be useful information.
Try booting the MacBook into Safe Mode by holding down the shift key on your keyboard during startup - this forces a file system check - and see if it boots completely. Let us know the result.
Best of luck.

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1. does anybody else have this problem?
2. is there a way to fix this on my current hardware without replacing stuff?
3. what is likely the problem?
4. will replacing the hard drive possibly fix this?

More details, please. You get a boot failure. You reinstall OS X. The next boot is successful. Then what?

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I put my macbook pro early 2011 (Quad, 8 Gb RAM, 2 x SSD-disks, external 27" LED-screen) into sleep mode a couple of days ago. Everything was fine then.
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sspott wrote:
** The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired.
Looks to me like a fatal error on the hard disk. IMHO, the only solution is to boot from an external device, reformat the hard drive, and restore from backup. If you don't have a backup, you're in trouble. Boot from the external device, try to mount the int'l drive, and, if successful, back up as much as possible. Also, try running Disk Utility—it may be possible to fix it while booted from a different device, thought I wouldn't bank on it. At any rate, make sure to run an AHT afterwards, to check for possible hardware issues with the drive.
If the machine is still covered by AppleCare, take it to the store by all means. But they won't try to recover anything from the int'l drive, just check it, erase it if they don't find hardware issues, and re-install a fresh copy of the OS.
That's why you should always have at least 1 up-to-date backup (2, with one kept off-site, is better).

My Macbook Pro (early 2008) won't boot, then booted, now won't boot again.

Hey all,
Summary:
My GF's Macbook Pro (Early 2008, non-unibody I believe) "died" earlier this year without notice or a cause for why, then it worked months later, then it didn't again.
Symptoms:
It stopped booting, with the only signs of life are:
The annoying boot sound that you hear right-away, like a winding sound. "Weeeeah woooo"
A fan turns on immediately after the sound.
The front light (on the open button) is solid.
The battery will light up and show how much juice is left.
The only thing to do from here is to hold down the power for 10 seconds.
Don't worry, my story gets more interesting...
Now, I had another computer and my GF didn't need her macbook seriously for a while, so I didn't research the problem or how to fix it, until last week. Perusing the various help forums and communities, I came across the reset SMC suggestion, so I decided to try a few things on Apple's SMC reset page.
I tried a couple things, including taking the battery out, and LOW AND BEHOLD: IT CAME ON, like nothing happened! The screen was fine, the performance was fine, it updated (to the new Safari and iTunes, as an example) fine, and it restarted fine multiple times. One of the main reasons I wanted to get it working was to save some family pictures we had saved, so I started uploading the images to an image cloud site. I'm sending them at full-res so it takes a while and I go to sleep around 2 am so I'm not too late into the office in the morn. When I wake up, I go to check the image upload progress and the laptop is Off. I figure it just went into standby after finishing, so I hit the power button...
And it doesn't boot again. It's back to the same issue as before. I try doing what I did last time, then resetting the SMC, but nothing has worked this time.
Any ideas? It's out of warranty of course, which is why I'm here.
Thanks in advance!

Since no one else is answering, I’ll jump in.
Your story is interesting indeed. I’m not sure I can help you fix the Mac but it sounds like there is a reasonable chance of recovering the data.
I assume it came with installation disks. Will it boot from them? If so run Disk Utility from there and try to repair the system disk.
For the hardware problems on your Mac it is time to take it to Genius Bar at an Apple store for a free diagnosis and estimate of repairs.
Genius reservation http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/ .
It could be your disk failing but it sounds more like flakey electronics in the system. Let’s assume is is the system board until a Genius tells you otherwise. If so, you can simply put the working system disk in an external enclosure, mount that on your other Mac and copy the data. Here is a source for the inexpensive hardware you would need:
Toolkit: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/TOOLKITMHD/
SATA enclosure: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/ES2.5BPU2W/
There are multiple directions to go from here. Let me know what happens when you try theses first options.

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*Apologies in advance for the lengthy post. I just want to be sure I include as much detail as possible. Thanks in advance for reading all of this and offering any thoughts and suggestions.
I have a 13-inch late 2011 MacBook Pro running OS 10.7.
The computer recently began booting slower and slower until finally one day it did nothing but show the gray boot screen with the apple and a spinning circle and/or progress bar at the bottom. It won't do anything else. I assume it's the HD; no surprise there. What's killing me is that no matter what I do, I can't boot to any disk, internal or external, can't mount it in target disk mode, and can't repair it or recover data, which is a first for me with any HD. However, the computer still clearly sees the drive, and the drive sounds and runs normally (meaning no clicks; appropriate amount of whirs and such).
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Reset PRAM — no help
Reset SMC — no help
Boot in Safe Mode — same result as regular boot: gray logo screen with spinning wheel
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Repair Disk — gets as far as "Checking catalog file" then shows "Keys out of order". Next is "Rebuilding catalog B-tree." Then "The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired."
fsck — same as Disk Utility: "Keys out of order (4, 22016)", "Rebuilding catalog B-tree", then "The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired." FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED." ...over and over again
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I've tried using TechTool Pro 8's edisk and ProToGo bootable drives, but again, the MacBook only sees them from Disk Utility only (not on Option-start), and I can select them, but it doesn't actually boot to them; it reverts back to gray screen.
I've installed a full version of OS 10.10.2 on an external hard drive, complete with DiskWarrior 4 on it, but same problem as above — it sees it in the "Select Startup Disk" menu, but not in the initial Option-start or successful reboot.
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What's more, why won't this laptop mount ANY drive? I should be able to Option-boot into any drive, especially if the USB ports, drives, and OS's are all fully functional, right? Is there any workaround I'm missing? Even if the internal drive and data are just screwed, what's causing a total lack of mounting or booting of any drive, internal or external?

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* about a month ago my machine started to run really slowly. It didn't freeze, but would run incredibly slowly. After reading the forums, I found some info RE apple mail and vacuuming the mail file and a few other housecleaning suggestions which claimed to help. I did these and it seemed that things went back to normal, particularly after deleting the index file in mail.
* Alas, the problem crept back after about a week. This time my machine came close to unresponsive, so I decided to reboot. Upon doing this, I couldn't get into the OS ... the grey apple logo appeared on start-up, then a white indicator bar, then it would just shut down. I tried booting into the recovery mode and using disk utility to check permissions. There were heaps of errors. I realised that fixing permissions can sometimes do harm, but had a complete TM backup so I wasn't too stressed. The repaair perimissions failed. I then did a verify disk and this too failed. Hmm.
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* I managed to load my apps and data/files from TM backup. But, the day that I did a restore of my iphoto library (220Gb), the machine started running slow again. I noticed that a few times it seemd to be stuck indexing the HDD. Odd. It never got passed 'calculating the time'. I rebooted a couple of times, then was back to the unable to start scenario.
* Once again, I went into recovery mode, disk utilities and found heaps of disk permission errors. This time the option to fix was avail, so I 'fixed them'. After rebooting back into recovery mode and trying this again, more permission errors were found, but the option to fix them was now greyed out. I also tried to verify the disk and this failed - indicating HDD issues.
* My second last step was to go into terminal and try /sbin/fsck -yf to check the HDD. The HDD passed all tests and reported back that it was fine. Hmm?
* Finally I tried booting into my Windows 7 partition and that worked fine. I was also able to see the data in the OS X partition - but have't tried doing anything with it (yet).
Before I run off ad replace the HDD, or freak out that maybe something more sinister is damaged ... I hope someone out there could offer further troubleshooting suggestions or help? Does thid sound s/w or h/w related?
BTW, My HDD is a Toshiba MK 7559GSXF 750 Gb.
PS - My machine exhibited the exact same symptoms last year when I was running Snow Leopard. The Apple store recommended I do a clean install - which I did - and at the same time switched to ML. Since then, all was running fine for about a year!
PS - I don't have Disk Warrior ... but have had a quick look at it ... not so simple to use and wasn't sure what verison to run on Moutain Lion.
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Hi ds store,
Thanks heaps for your help. In your suggestion, you mentioned two things:
1) Reformat the drive with a secure erase. When I did my previous (non secure) format of the drive, I made sure to check with DU that the drive was OK. After the format, it reported 'no errors' at all. I'm just wondering how the secure format will provide any additional benefit? Assuming that once that's done it will again report no errors. I guess what I am asking is, does the secure format do a more thorough scan or check as part of the process?
2) Find and replace 'corrupted' files. Yikes ... how does one do this? I've got about 700Gb of data (pics, files, work, research, etc). How could I identify possible issues?
As an aside, I have not yet performed the format b/c I reaslised that I have a few photos in my iPhoto library that didn't backup before this issue. There are about 100 recent pics that didn't make it to the TM iPhoto backup. As mentioend before, I can boot in my Win7 partition and 'see' the Mac HD, and know I can copythe files in the Master directory across (if I knew which ones they were) ... but ...
Think it would be easier to connect my iMac (running SL) to my MBP and open the iPhoto library directly on my iMac. This way I could identify the relevant pics quickly and copy them to my iMac temporarily.
However, for some reason, even though I've turned on sharing for the MacHD/...users/XX/Photos directory (while in Win7), my iMac doesn't recognise or allow me to open the iPhoto directory - is this a permission thing ... or is it b/c I am trying to look at a Mac partition 'through' the Win7 o/s?
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