MacBook Pro is booting up but stuck before booting up the Finder
Dear all,
My MacBook Pro is causing me a huge lot of trouble today as it is failing to complete the boot-up process.
It completes the boot-up until the login screen appears, and when I pick the account and enter my password it enters the desktop/homescreen.
This is where the problems begin as I starts all my various applications, it already fails to start the finder. The icons in my desktop/homescreen are also not appearing. I cannot click anything as the cursor is still the colored spinning wheel.
The likely cause of this problem is a hard-reset that I had to perform as my MacBook was stuck running a program writing data.
I have tried numerous possible solutions, such as safe-mode, Single-user mode, repair disk...... none of which have helped up to this point.
Anyone have any ideas how I can boot my MacBook again? Is there a way to bypass the Finder?
Any help is highly appreciated!
Kind regards,
Krijn
Ok, Apperently I am a little impatient.... My Macbook has just completed its boot-up process in no less than 15 minutes.....
But it's alive again!
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