My computer is going to a white screen when I turn it on. I have tried repairing it from my recovery drive and it says that my disk is ok.

My MacBook Pro (2010) has Mavericks operating system. The other day I was working in pages and all of the sudden it notified me that auto save wasn't working anymore. So I restarted my computer and it went to this white screen. I've opened up my recovery disk and repaired it and it says that the disk is ok. Yet, it's still stopping at a white screen. What do I do?

caleb.hollingsworth,
you can try this: boot your MacBook Pro into Recovery mode by holding down a Command key and the R key as it starts up. Once the OS X Utilities menu appears, select Disk Utility. On the left-hand side of the Disk Utility window, select your internal disk’s boot partition (typically called “Macintosh HD”). On the right-hand side, select the First Aid tab if it’s not already selected, then press the Verify Disk button if it’s not greyed out; if it is greyed out, or if it reports that errors were found, press the Repair Disk button. Once the verification/repair is completed, exit Disk Utility and select Restart from the Apple menu to restart in normal mode. Does it get past the white screen now?

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