My granddaughters new mac book pro is locked and screed frozen on msg saying do you want to shut down. Keyboard, scroll and mouse not working Help

I mean screen

Linc Davis wrote:Most importantly, do not waste your money on "DiskWarrior," an expensive piece of software that's utterly useless if you have backups, which you absolutely must have. Spend the money on one or two external hard drives instead, and set up Time Machine to back up to those drives. That will do a lot more for you than DiskWarrior.
"Thank you BDAqua for your input,
Took it to the store to have some professional experts take a look at my computer, however all were convinced I lost the data and was no longer able to retrieve it. Took your advise and bought DiskWarrior. Problem was fixed in 5 minutes!! and all my data are still there. Perfect! Thanks for your input and putting a smile on my face again.
NP_NY"
BTW, you might enjoy these DiskWarrior review/recommendations...
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