My mac book pro (not the newest one) will not turn on.
it can be charged and will bring up the loading screen but thats as far as it goes. it freezes on the load screen and never moves. its a little over a year old and iv never had problems with it. can some one please give me an answer??
Go into the recovery partition and use DIsk Utilities:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/recovery/
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417
Success? Post here, whether or not - others will be able to learn from this info!
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