My macbook pro when started has a white screen with flashing apple, file with question mark and stop signs...any ideas how to reboot it? command R doesn't work
Any help appreciated please.
After a while of being like this is turns off.
You may have to reset your MBP PRAM:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
The boot drive may need repair in Disk Utility>First Aid (verify and repair)
Critical system files may be damaged which will require that the OS may need to be reinstalled.
The connection to the boot drive is faulty.
The HDD has failed and needs to be replaced.
Ciao.
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you have a 13-inch Mid 2012 MacBook Pro. It’s modern enough that it supports booting into Recovery mode. To do so, hold down a Command key and the R key as you start up. It should eventually show a Mac OS X Utilities menu. Select Disk Utility from that menu; when the Disk Utility window appears, select the bootable volume from the left-hand side of the window. (It’s typically called “Macintosh HD”.) When the volume is selected, some buttons will appear on the right-hand side. If it’s not greyed out, press the Verify Disk button; if it is greyed out, or if it reports on errors that it found, press the Repair Disk button. Once the verification/repair is completed, exit Disk Utility and select Restart from the Apple menu; that will restart your MacBook Pro in its normal mode. With luck, that will be enough to get you to your normal login screen, rather than the white screen. -
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Hello daz3
The Other items could be items in the OS X folders such as the System folder and caches, personal information such as documents, contacts, calendar data, App Plugins or extensions, Media files that cannot be classified by Spotlight as a media file because they are located inside of a package, file types not recognized by Spotlight. Check out the article for more information.
OS X: What is "other" space in About This Mac?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6047
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