My macbook wont load passed white screen

reading this, your hdd has unfortunately died. have you backed your system up? if you have it is not as bad as it seems.
you will have to buy a new drive and simply restore to that drive from the backup.

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My macbook wont turn on pass the white initial screen with the apple. ive tried turning it on and off and the battery is fine. any suggestions?

Have you tried booting up with the leopard dvd? (hold c down while you press the power button to boot from cd) I was having the same problem, booted from the dvd and ran disk utility/repair and things seem okay now.

Macbook not loading past white screen. DU not finding HDD, works externaly

Hello,
My Macbook stopped working recently, it crashed, so I held down power button for it to turn on again.
I did this the next morning and it just would not load past the white screen, I tried turning off and on again with no joy.
I had the circle with a line through it at one point. I tried safe mode and reseting whist holding cmd S, then option cmd P R.
I loaded with the disk in and Disk utility could not find the disk.
I plugged the HDD into a USB adapter and the HDD works fine, I am using it to write this.
What would stop the mac from loading the HDD and cause Disk utility to not find the disk?
Macbook Pro 13.3" 2009. I recently put in 8GB RAM to replace the 4GB. Using Lion since it came out.
Any help guys?
Sorry if this problem has been posted else where already.

Reinstalling Lion/Mountain Lion Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

Macbook not loading past white screen with logo and spinnning wheel?

ok, so basically i have a macbook 10.6.4 Snow Lepoard that is making me want to literally bash its brains out but, unfortunatly i cant because it is owened by the school...
As mentioned in previous posts, my school It dept are incredibly slow and their idea of fixing something is to wipe everthing and reinstall all the programs once again. if that dosent work their other way of fixing something is to send it off to apple. for obveous reasons i want to avoid that.
it ONLY started today, (last night i was happily doing last minuite homework) when its was lagging so much that i did the inevitable, i quit tetris and restarted my computer...
This led to me sitting infront of a white screen and a spinning wheel for the whole lesson. The next lesson i got fed up with waiting and restarted. nothing. I have also notied that my macbook seems to heat up REALLY FAST toward the bottom of the screen (where is says macbook).
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Favvi

well i went to hand it in today but the fails that we call 'the qualified IT deptarment' (even though they are only two), decided to take the day off. they were supposed to be there recess and lunch but the room was pitch black.
When you say that "you do not need admin rights to perform the different solution", i actually am the admin of the laptop but there is another hidden admin so that they can change any settings in the computer without our passwords.
i have previously tried that whole command letter thing for various other things such as safe mode and starting from the disk and have had no sucess. i dont know if my timing is off or something but it never works. however, i have been able to retrive a disk from the disk drive by pressing the mouse button when it turns on.
this is an exerpt from a previous post:
favvi wrote:
so im really starting to get annoyed now. I have tried that single user mode start up thing (command + s) after the chime, before the chime, hold it down for a second, hold it down forever BUT IT ALWAYS JUST GOES INTO MY LOGIN SCREEN!!! i cant seem to get around this. I cant get into the 'utilities' from my install disk because it asks for an admin name and password. i am literally tearing my hair out…
Barney-15E:
That doesn't make any sense. When it boots to the install disk, there is no user to authenticate.
Does it have an Open Firmware password set?
i assumed that this was set. but to be honest i have no freaking idea.
also i was talking to a friend today and she said that she had the same issue and they had to replace the battery. although i have no idead on how the battery could be affecting this?

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Why do some web pages load blank white screens, usually after a home page has loaded correctly but further pages wont open. Ive changed browsers but still get the same problem.

Try a different DNS server...
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Click +
Enter these addresses exactly as you see them here.
208.67.222.222
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Macbook pro boots to white screen and a ?

macbook pro boots to white screen and a ?

Gus@MaggiesFarm,
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 Mac 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, 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?

Ipod touch wont load past apple screen. I have tried resetting by holding home button and on/off but after it resets it still only loads to the apple screen. When I plug the device in It stays on the apple screen and itunes does not recognize it?

Ipod touch wont load past apple screen. I have tried resetting by holding home button and on/off but after it resets it still only loads to the apple screen. When I plug the device in It stays on the apple screen and itunes does not recognize it? I fear it may be stuck in some sort of reset loop which is stopping itunes from recognizing it. How do I go about the process of sending it in to apple if I cannot find a fix? Thank you in advance, it is greatly appreciated!!

- See if placing the iPod in Recovery mode will allow a restore.
- If not successful and you can't turn the iPod fully off (that is required to place in recovery mode), then let the battery fully drain. After charging for at least an hour try the reset, restore again
- Then time for an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apples store.

Macbook pro show only white screen.

Hello,
Just one month ago, i got macbook pro,
Recently i installed windows 8 on macbook and i made three partition by Disk Utility. Whatever it was working perfetly.
After that i start windows 8 and tried to deleted number three partition by administration tool from windows. After that all partition shown yellow colour, then i resart the macbook pro. But now macbook pro only show white screen.
I holded option key, their only show window partition, no Recovery HD. On my macbook pro i have many important which i do not want to lose data.
Macbook Pro Model No: A1286, OS X: 10.6 (May be), 2.6GHz processor
I am new user of mac. Please give me easy solution for me.
I am live in Bangladesh. Is there any service center of MacBook? if there has, it gives free service for my problem.
Shomon

Follow these documents.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1440
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
If you get a external USB or Firewire drive, you can hold c and boot off the installer disk #1 that comes with your computer, the second screen in is a Utilities Menu and Disk Utility.
Select the EXTERNAL DRIVE and Erase, format HFS+ Journaled GUID partition.
When that's completed quit Disk Utility and your back in the OS X installer, install OS X on the EXTERNAL DRIVE.
When that's complete quit and reboot hold down the OPTION KEY and select the External drive to boot from.
Now GRAB THOSE FILES!!!
After that you can do what you want to the boot drive, if you can't fix it, you can always install OS X again (without formatting) and it should leave your programs and files alone. But if something goes wrong you have a copy on the external drive.
If for some reason you can't access your internal drive, either booted from the install disk in Disk Utility or via the external drive, it's possible your hard drive died.

Macbook won't load past white screen, tried everything.

Hi all,
I've tried everything I've come across to get my Macbook running again. Tried booting into safe mode, didnt work, tried fixing using fsck in single-user mode, fsck said it worked but still wouldn't boot! Even tried verbose mode but came across disk0s2 I/O error.
Can anyone help me out, it loads up to the white screen with the grey apple logo and the loading wheel goes round and round but goes no where.
Working on Mac OS X but forget exactly which one.

Hi, I had a similar problem a couple of years ago, the problem ended up being my hard drive had crashed on my macbook. You should take it to your nearest Genius Bar, they will check and see if thats the problem for free, fixing however if it is that can get expensive, of course thats according to a very poor college student, It was about 220 or so. but if you do find out its the HDD you could always just go buy one and instal it yourself, I hear it not that hard to do acutally. Good luck!

Macbook wont start and white graysh screen with a folder with question mark

Was on internet, the macbook froze,couldnt do any thing, then pressed to switch botton, but when it turn on again th white screen came up, after a while a folder with questio mark keeps flashing with the white/graysh screen at the back.
Tried to use the mac os cd but seems like there's no harddrive to complete the intalation.
Tried the first aid but also nothing happened..

Sorry to say but your hard drive is officially dead. You can try removing it and putting it back in but I doubt that will work. The same thing happen to me and I lost everything. Your only option to recover your data would be to try a contacting a data recovery business. But I tried that and the estimate was $700 and they couldn't guarantee anything. Best of luck!

2011 Macbook Pro Stuck on White Screen and Won't Shut Down

Greetings,
I just received a 15 inch Macbook Pro with a 2.2 i7 processor earlier today. On my previous computer, a 2009 MB P with a Core2Duo, I've had a shutdown issue on it for the past week or so: when I click the power button, and confirm the shutdown, the computer would start shutting down as normal, however once it reached the white screen with the spinning loading symbol at the bottom, it just got stuck on that. As I've transfered my old data to my brand new computer, I'm still having the same issue with it. I was wondering if this was due to a worm, or some software incompliancy? If anyone could shed any light, I'd be greatful.
Thanks.

thecloakedone wrote:
I'm running the old Final Cut Studio (2) (still have to enter my serial), and am also running these apps which could be considered out of the ordinary: *VLC
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                                                  *CleanMyMac
                                                  *Mirage
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                                                  *RecBoot
                                                  *SuperDocker
                                                  *PlistEditPro
That's all. Everything else is either from Apple, Adobe, or is downloaded from the app store.
Were you using any of them when the issue occurred (or just prior to it)?
Have you looked for updates on all of them?
If you want to do some digging, open Console and look at the logs at, and just prior to, the time of the issue.

Macbook shuts down at white screen :(

So my laptop is a 2010 MacBook Pro, I have never had a single problem with it. Got home tonight after eating dinner to have it randomly shut off on me after I opened it up. I attempted to turn it back on, it dings, gets to the white screen, then sits there for a minute before shutting off. I tried 4 times, everytime resulting in the same thing. It's at 4 dots out of 8 when I click the button on the side so I don't think battery is the issue. I'm not sure what to do, I googled the problem and found some similar things but not the same issue. If anyone could please tell me what to do, that would be amazing :/ I'm pretty bummed right now.

Try these in order:
1. a. Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
    b. Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
2. Restart the computer in Safe Mode, then restart again, normally. If this doesn't help, then:
     Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the
     COMMAND and R keys until the Utilities menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and
     after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears.
     Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
3. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
4. Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks: Reboot from the Recovery HD. Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks from the Utilities menu, and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

MacBook stuck on opening White screen- help!

My MacBook recently froze while I was using it, so I shut it down by pressing down the power button. Ever since then, whenever I turn it on, it gets stuck on the opening White screen with the apple logo on. I ran a hardware test which said that there was nothing wrong with the hardware, and when I tried to run a disk utility test as advised by the manual, nothing would load on it. If anyone can advise me on what to try next or how to resolve this problem, I'd really appreciate it!

Are you saying the hard drive does not appear in Disk Utility? If so then the hard drive has failed. Otherwise do this:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
Reinstall OS X. This will not erase the hard drive.

Macbook wont load up after latest apple update

Whilst updating the software today to the latest version i got a message saying that there had been a problem and it needed to restart. I did this and now it will not load past the white screen which usually has an apple logo showing but now has the circle with a line through it! over the top of this there are lines of code in black and white!
When i tried to load the recovery disk whilst pressing "C" it gets to the white screen with the apple logo but beeps 3 times in a row on loop!
I have after market RAM installed and I have removed and re-seated this with no change. I have also reinstalled the apple RAM which has had no affect.
Any help would be very much appreciated.

I am having the same problem. After running and installing App Store software update an error message appeared after about 7 minutes saying the installation failed and could not continue. A restart came to to login screen. Adding my account password spun the circle a few moments then the screen flashed and no login. I tried again. Tried the guest account. Tried zapping PRAM. Tried recovery partition to repair disk permissions. I was able to get an error message to get a new hard drive from a failed disk repair.
2.5 Ghz MacBook Pro 15" A1260 titanium pre-unibody.
Tried safe mode. Get only about 30 seconds of spinning, 1/4 on the progress bar, and then shut down.
I doubt it is a bad disk. I say that because my Windows partition still boots normally using Option at startup.
I read several forums and posts. Found something about a possible glitch with video card switching permissions. Cannot get into any account to change permissions, so I don't know if that is possible at this point.
Found something to startup in single user Command + S mode and check disk persmissions. Something about the 8th character ending in "r" seemed to be correct. A /fsck -fy resulting in an error at catalog, if I recall. A bad hard drive could be possible, but seems really unlikely as I have had no recent disk issues and the Bootcamp partition works fine.
There are a growing number of similar posts on no reboot after update or no login, etc. I doubt sending people out for new drives or kernel panics is the issue. Something with the install failed and is preventing reboot. Any help would be appreciated. I'm on a different computer as I cannot startup in any manner.

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