My Sleek won't boot properly! Stuck on Recovery/Rescue m

Each time I boot my Zen Sleek it either goes to the rescue mode or it just locks up on the Creative logo. I've had it for a few months and this is the first time it seriously locked up on me. I hard reset it on the bottom and it's still the same. I tried to run Disk Cleanup through the rescue mode and it doesn't even run it!! I don't know what's going on... Yesterday it was playing like a beauty.

?Re: My Sleek won't boot properly! Stuck on Recovery/Rescue mode?
MRM wrote:
I appreciate your help, but you should read my post first. I don't need to go into rescue, I need it to NOT go to rescue. I tried formatting and it says HDD problem...ugh
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Recently I updated my MacBook Pro to OS X Yosemite. I then started the process of the data encryption.
I don't know what happened, but maybe the encryption failed, because now every time I turn my mac on, it won't boot properly unless it's in safe mode.
Either it will have a black screen with a visible cursor, or just the desktop with no dock or the bar along the top and no icons, or it does boot up properly, but works extremely slowly. Like if I was to press the apple symbol on the top-right of the screen, it would take 5 minutes to actually open it. Nothing works properly.
And so I opened up my system preferences, and discovered that the Encryption is stuck on half-finished. But I can't stop it. If I try to turn encryption off it says I have to wait till it's finished. But it never does, the progress bar never moves.
If I open System Preferences while in Safe Mode, the progress bar for Encryption is grey, and underneath it says "connect to power to continue encryption". But it IS connected to power.
Have I stuffed my Mac? Is there a way to get it working again?

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10. If you're logged in as an administrator, you'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. You will not see the usual dots in place of typed characters. Make sure caps lock is off. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you make three failed attempts to enter the password, the test will run anyway, but it will produce less information. In most cases, the difference is not important. If you don't know the password, or if you prefer not to enter it, press the key combination control-C or just press return three times at the password prompt. Again, the script will still run.
If you're not logged in as an administrator, you won't be prompted for a password. The test will still run. It just won't do anything that requires administrator privileges.
11. The test may take a few minutes to run, depending on how many files you have and the speed of the computer. A computer that's abnormally slow may take longer to run the test. While it's running, there will be nothing in the Terminal window and no indication of progress. Wait for the line
[Process completed]
to appear. If you don't see it within half an hour or so, the test probably won't complete in a reasonable time. In that case, close the Terminal window and report what happened. No harm will be done.
12. When the test is complete, quit Terminal. The results will have been copied to the Clipboard automatically. They are not shown in the Terminal window. Please don't copy anything from there. All you have to do is start a reply to this comment and then paste by pressing command-V again.
At the top of the results, there will be a line that begins with the words "Start time." If you don't see that, but instead see a mass of gibberish, you didn't wait for the "Process completed" message to appear in the Terminal window. Please wait for it and try again.
If any private information, such as your name or email address, appears in the results, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
13. When you post the results, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "You are not authorized to post." That's a bug in the forum software. Please post the test results on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.
14. This is a public forum, and others may give you advice based on the results of the test. They speak only for themselves, and I don't necessarily agree with them.
Copyright © 2014 by Linc Davis. As the sole author of this work, I reserve all rights to it except as provided in the Use Agreement for the Apple Support Communities website ("ASC"). Readers of ASC may copy it for their own personal use. Neither the whole nor any part may be redistributed.

Bootcamp Windows Installer won't boot properly on rBMP late 2013

I have been redirected to this community. I will repost the same question I asked in the mackbook pro community. I am new to Apple Support Communities, I hope this is okay for me to ask the question here again.
Here is my post in the other community: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5922375?tstart=0
I just bought my MBP Retina 13" Late 2013 last week. It came with Mavericks 10.9, and I have since updated it to 10.9.1.
I have installed Windows 7 64bit using Bootcamp, and ran into a situation, which I hope the experts here could give me a hand.
I used the first two options in Boot Camp Assistant (BCA) and sucessfully created a Bootcamp Windows Installer for Windows 7 64bit on a USB Thumb Drive (USB 3.0). Then I launched Boot Camp Assistant again, and selected the last option to install Windows 7 64 bit on the bootcamp partition, the installation went through successfully. Both Windows 7 and the bootcamp drivers are installed, and I am able to dual boot OS X and Windows properly.
However, if I try to launch Bootcamp Windows 7 USB Installer created using BCA as described in the above by holding down <option> key while rebooting, and select the USB device lableled as 'Windows', Windows 7 Installer starts (in BIOS boot mode, I believe) and then it freezes after it gets to the language selection screen, the mackbook no longer responds to either the trackpad or the keyboard.
In other words, this Windows 7 USB Installer boots properly when launched by BCA's third option. However, this USB Installer does not boot properly when launched by selecting 'Windows' after holding down <option> key while rebooting. What am I doing wrong here?
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Joe

I did create a Recovery Disk from inside Windows 7 this weekend following your suggestion. Unfortunately, this has the same problem as the installer.
However, USB Installer I created for Windows 8.1 could boot properly both in BIOS boot mode or EFI boot mode. This Windows 8.1 USB Installer is created using the standard procedure for the BCA; the only difference from the Windows 7 USB Installer is that I used Windows 8.1 ISO instead of Windows 7 ISO.
With this Windows 8.1 USB Installer, I am able to access the BOOTCAMP partition and perform necessary operations to fix startup issues, and perform backup and restore using the native Windows tools for the BOOTCAMP partition. And no need to spend $30 on WinClone
Thanks for your help!
Joe

MSI GT70 ONC-008US - Won't boot properly

For whatever reason, my laptop refuses to boot properly now. For awhile it just had a problem booting from sleep (no image on screen, seemingly working otherwise), so I avoided doing that. It also did this when trying to power on the laptop, but this problem was fixed ignored by simply holding the button and trying again.
It now it wont boot, despite the number of times I might try to make it. Nothing appears on the screen at all, sometimes my keyboard back-lights come on but now not even that happens. I don't know what to do. The hard drive (I think it's the hard drive?) makes a sort of clanking sounds a couple times and then goes quiet, occasionally making small beaps. USB devices power up per usual.
If you know what might be happening I'd be eternally grateful. My only guess is that the hard drive is failing, but wouldn't the screen still show something if it was simply the hard drive failing?
##UPDATE:## After trying a million times it finally booted. I still want to figure out what is going on. Please help

Quote from: tdesantiago on 07-April-13, 07:15:15
I've contacted at least three computer repair shops in my local area and all seem to think it's the motherboard. FML
It sucks. But it should still be under warranty from MSI. I would contact them to be perfectly honest.

Help! My Tour won't boot, gets stuck on loading screen.

Earlier today, while my tour was charging it randomly rebooted itself, but it wouldn't boot all the way - the load screen froze about 2/3 of the way through and then didn't do anything (for like 15 minutes) I did both a hard and soft reset, but the phone still won't boot past that point. Because it won't boot, I can't connect it to the computer to reinstall the OS or anything.

Hi there,
Unfortunately it sounds like you might have what is called a bricked or "nuked" BlackBerry. There are ways to fix this, but it can take a couple of extra steps.
Start off by downloading the OS from your carrier to your computer. You can find your carrier's BlackBerry download site here: http://us.blackberry.com/support/downloads/download_sites.jsp. Once you've downloaded the OS for your device, install it to your computer.
Next, go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Research In Motion\Apploader and open the Loader.exe file (note: if you have a 32-bit OS, there will not be an (x86) after Program Files). Click Next to go to the Communication Port Selection page. Now here is where you need to watch carefully and be on the ball to ensure it works.
Take your battery out of the your BlackBerry and plug your device into your computer. As soon as you see USB-PIN:UNKNOWN in the connection spot, click Next. If you miss it, don't worry, just unplug the device and plug it back in again to start the boot cycle again. Once you've made it to the next page, you should be good to go to reload the OS. At this point in time, you can also reinsert the battery.
Then just follow the steps to reload the OS and you should be set. As a warning though, if you have not recently backed up your device, there is a chance that you may lose the data on the device.
Good luck and let us know if you have any other questions.
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G5 won't boot properly/running incredibly slow :(

Hey, friends.
So my mom and dad were kind enough to gift me their old G5 (I think they got it in 2006). Trouble is, I can't get it to boot properly. It takes about an hour for it to go from turning on to the point where the contents of the desktop appear and I would (theoretically) be able to do something. After just sitting there for the longest time with the color wheel spinning, the screen went blank although the computer and monitor were still on. Eventually it came back, but the computer runs incredibly slow. Like, clicking on the Apple menu caused the color wheel to spin for about ten minutes.
I tried /sbin/fsck -fy, which is about the extent of my computer doctoring skills and this is the message I got:
diskOs9: I/O error.
Invalid node structure
(4, 1771)
** Volume check failed.
Any thoughts?
Message was edited by: Alex_C.

Pull the drive and put in a new one.
I've never had much faith if any in Apple fsck or First Aid.
The G5 stopped being sold in 2006 so that would make it one of the dual-core / pci express graphics.
See if you have 10.4.6 or later DVD so you can attempt to repair and install while you wait to get Alsoft Disk Warrior, and a new system drive to work with and build a new boot drive etc to which you can copy over any files & programs you need.
An emergency boot volume is pretty much a necessity with Mac. Your system drive directory structure is not going to make it. In theory a Safe Boot can deal with minor corruption and rebuild boot cache.
There are some FAQs to guide you in your doctoring and sharpen your skills!

Toshiba A350 sometimes won't boot properly

I notice there are number of problems similar to this but no one has a fix.
Problem:
1) *Sometimes* when I boot my laptop the power light comes on but the screen stays black. Doesn't go any further.
2) *Sometimes* when I boot my laptop it boots to the Windows start up screen but with thin rainbow coloured lines on the screen (occasionally you can make out the background Windows start up screen). Doesn't go any further.
3) Most of the time it boots and it works perfectly. No crashes or screen problems.
After holding the power button down for a few seconds during 1) and 2) to "shut down" after a few attempts booting it will boot properly.
So far I've flashed the BIOS to the latest version and changed Processor Power Management to 100% under power options (advice from a link on Google). Neither have helped.
Any ideas on this problem? It seems quite specific to start up as it works well otherwise. Very annoying having to try multiple times to boot.
Specifications:
Toshiba A350 (approx. 1 year old, out of warranty)
Windows 7 Pro x64 (upgrade from Vista)
Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 2.13Ghz
4GB DDR2
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 (512MB discrete video memory)
Thanks.

I have exactly the same problem
(Problem:
*Sometimes* when I boot my laptop the power light comes on but the screen stays black. Doesn't go any further.)
My laptop only doesn't start on battery only. The power light comes on and the stays on with the laptop in a freeze (nothing displayed on screen). The only way to get this light off is to remove battery.
Starts EVERY time with the AC power connected (with or without battery).
Works perfectly normal once booted
SOMETIMES starts with the battery only if I boot soon after I have already been using the laptop
I have tried the static release processes but doesn't work.
After having this trouble I updated to latest BIOS but has not helped
Tried a different battery and has not helped
Is a Toshiba Satellite PRO L500 T4400 4GB 15" Win7 Laptop - only 3 weeks or so old
Very annoying!
Please someone with an answer??

Macbook won't boot properly.

Macbook won't boot. When turned on, it starts clicking; after a while, I get a gray screen with a blinking folder in the middle that has a question mark on it. After a minute or two, it shuts off.

That folder with the question mark icon means that the MacBook can't find the boot directory. That can either mean it can't find the hard drive or the Operating System data on the hard drive is somehow corrupted.
Put your install DVD into the optical drive (CD/DVD drive) and reboot. Be sure to either use the disc that came with your Mac, or, if you installed a later Mac OS X version from disc, use the newer disc. As soon as you hear the boot chime, hold down the "c" key on your keyboard (or the Option Key until the Install Disk shows up) until the apple shows up. That will force your MacBook to boot from the install DVD in the optical drive.
Or if you are running 10.7 Lion, boot from the recovery partition (Command +R on boot) and use Disk Utility to repair your OS 10.7 partition.
When it does start up, you'll see a panel asking you to choose your language. Choose your language and press the Return key on your keyboard once. It will then present you with an Installation window. Completely ignore this window and click on Utilities in the top menu and scroll down to Disk Utility and click it. When it comes up is your Hard Drive in the list on the left?
If it is, then click on the Mac OS partition of your hard drive in the left hand list. Then select the First Aid Tab and run Repair Disk. The Repair Disk button won't be available until you've clicked on the Mac OS partition on your hard drive. If that repairs any problems run it again until the green OK appears and then run Repair Permissions. After repairing use Startup Disk from the same menu to choose your hard drive for restarting from your hard drive.
If your hard drive isn’t recognized in Disk Utility then your hard drive is probably dead.

Won't boot normally or in recovery and single user mode, safe mode hangs up halfway

iMac locked up with visual glitches while playing the Mac beta client of League of Legends. Had to force a shutdown by holding the power button. Now it won't boot; after the Apple logo and spinning wheel I just get a white screen. I tried launching in recovery mode, that didn't work. Then I tried safe mode; the bar filled a little over half and then nothing but white screen. I was able to boot single user mode once; ran fsck -fy and rebooted, still white screen. Now I can't get back to single user mode. I booted with command option P R to reset the NVRAM and got the second chime, but still nothing.
Luckily all my important files are in the cloud, but I'm really hoping my computer isn't completely dead. I haven't had any issues in the past. I've even been playing LoL for over a month with no issues, until now when I tried to play the newer game types, Dominion and ARAM; both caused visual glitches forcing shutdowns. I was able to restart my computer with no problem after the first two visual glitches, but after the last one I am stuck at the white screen as I described above.
Thanks in advance for your help!

I'd bet the drive is damaged. You could try reformatting if possible. Again, you are booting from the Recovery-10.8.2 disk if you can. If you can't, then you will need to use the installer disc that came with the computer.
Install or Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion from Scratch
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard 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.
Erase the hard drive:
1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
2. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the
      left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on
        the Security button and set the Zero Data option to one-pass. Click on
      the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Install button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
            because it is three times faster than wireless.

Mac won't boot properly after putting in Windows 7 boot disc

I wanted to get Windows 7 on my Mac, so I got the disc, ran boot camp assistant, and when it said install Windows 7, I put the disc in, and clicked continue. The Mac reset, and after it got past the white screen, it went black, and my keyboard and mouse stopped working. Now I can't take the disc out because it won't let me go to my desktop.

Keyboard/trackpad inoperative, black screen, or alert messages when installing Windows 7
Boot Camp- Windows installation boots to black screen with blinking cursor
Five ways to eject a stuck CD or DVD from the optical drive
Ejecting the stuck disc can usually be done in one of the following ways:
1. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the
      left mouse button until the disc ejects.
2. Press the Eject button on your keyboard.
3. Click on the Eject button in the menubar.
4. Press COMMAND-E.
5. If none of the above work try this: Open the Terminal application in
      your Utilities folder. At the prompt enter or paste the following:
        /usr/bin/drutil eject
If this fails then try this:
Boot the computer into Single-user Mode. At the prompt enter the same command as used above. To restart the computer enter "reboot" at the prompt without quotes.

After Performing simple Terminal Command Mac 10.10 won't boot properly

hey guys,
recently, i followed the steps in this tutorial:
How to Change View Options for ALL Finder Windows?
After doing so, my MacBook Pro OS X 10.10 does not start properly, getting stuck at the turning wheel after typing in the pw.
I noticed the terminal going through every single folder saying "find rm 'xxx' is a directory"
I triple checked the command line before.
I tried booting in safe mode.
I Hope there is a solution other than wiping all of it.

The command listed in that thread is exceptionally dangerous. Erase your hard drive and restore from backup.

Macbook won't boot up stuck at white screen

My computer has been running a little slower lately and I noticed that disk space kept disappearing. I would empty trash or get rid of programs I didn't need but it will only fix it for a little while.
I was using the computer playing Angry Birds Seasons and I got a dialog box telling me I was running out of disk space and needed to free some up.
I exited all the running programs and tried to restart computer but it would not shut down. I held power button and tried to reboot that way but now I am stuck at the white apple screen with the timer circle going around and around but no boot up.
Please help. I have some documents on the mac that I don't want to lose. Is there a way to reinstall/fix this without losing my documents?

You could alway boot to your Recovery partition (Command-R on boot) and verify and repair, if needed, your hard drive. And repair permissions while your at it.
If that doesn't work, call back...
Clinton

Computer won't boot properly

So with my pc, I have been having a problem where whenever I boot it up I will get the black screen of death.
Basically after I start it up, instead of the login screen I get a blank black screen with just a curser. I still hear the Windows chime.
However I can still boot into safe mode. I have determined that it is a graphic card problem because whenever I uninstall the drivers, it works just fine. No matter what drivers I use, it still won't work. I have a gtx 970. it works fine with Intel hd graphics 4600. Also if I wait 1 minute between each attempt it sometimes boots up after around 5 attempts.
I tried re-installing my os but that didn't work.
I found some fixes where you do control alt delete and open the task manager and restart explorer.exe but that did not work either.
Any more suggestions?
Thank in advance.

I have followed the format. I hope this helps a little...
Hi all, so I am having a problem with my newly built gaming desktop. Whenever I boot it up, instead of showing the login screen it shows a black screen with a cursor. Whenever I login, (I can still type in my password) I see a blank desktop with just my background. Also if I keep it idol for long periods my explorer.exe will stop working and my desktop will disappear and just show my background.
Sometimes after about 5 attempts to boot it will succeed and boot normally. (If I wait about a minute between each attempt)
These are the things I have tried:
1. changing video card drivers
2. attempting to restart explorer.exe (unable to access task manager)
3. re-installing Windows
4. using integrated graphics (worked just fine)
How I isolated the problem: I am still able to access safemode. I disabled my video card driver and my computer now works just fine. Whenever I enable it my problem continues. Also when it will boot up everything runs perfectly. My games run just as they should.
Main Board: ASRock H97M Pro4 LGA 1150 Intel H97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
Bios Version: SMBIOSBIOSVersion
Video Card: MSI GTX 970 4GD5T OC GeForce GTX 970 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support G-SYNC Support Video Card
PSU: EVGA 500 B 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified 500W Active PFC ATX12V v2.31/EPS 12V v2.91 3 Year Warranty 100-B1-0500-KR Power Supply Intel 4th Gen CPU Ready
12v rail Rating of listed PSU: ?
CPU: Intel Core i5-4590S Processor 3.0GHz 5.0GT/s 6MB LGA 1150 CPU
Memory: Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB Kit (2x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM - Black (HX316C10FBK2/8)
SSD/ HDD: WD Blue 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache - WD10EZEX
CPU COOLER: stock
Raid Card: ?
Sound Card: none
Any Additional hardware plugged into your system: no
OC: (Yes / No) no
Operating System: Windows 7 64 bit SP1

Lion won't boot. Stuck on gray screen

Was trying to work with HP support to troubleshoot a problem communicating with the scanner portion of an HP OfficeJet 6500a E710 bought at an Apple Store. They had me run the HP uninstaller to remove all HP software in scrub mode. They then asked to run verify disk permissions. Then reboot.
Upon reboot I get the gray screen with the spinner, and it sits there forever.
Any ideas what could be wrong or how to get around it?
I've used Command-V to get verbose output during boot. Last thing it says is that its running fsck_hfs. But I see no other messages after that. The CPU fan is spun up as if the CPU is busy.
I've booted using the recovery image and checked the disk. Everything checks out ok.
I've booted into single user mode and run fsck and fsck_hfs. Both ran fine.
I tried to startup in safe mode verbose. I let it sit for hours and after 3 hours it booted. But then I rebooted and it got stuck again.
Any suggestions appreciated. This is a machine I use for work and income. Neither of which are happening right now.
I've been trying to research how Lion starts up to see where it invokes fsck_hfs, but I haven't found any reference online to describe how Lion starts up. All references I've found refer to Tiger or earlier which has a very different boot sequence.
Thanks

Call Apple. Seriously.

Macbook Pro won't boot. Stuck on blue screen?

Boy does my Mac have problems, ok here we go!
Originally, the display on my mac was distorted during operation and when trying to boot up, including in safe mode. Now the distortion is gone (except in safe mode), but when booting up, my Mac either gets stuck on the blue screen or, if it successfully boots up, can't handle anything more than safari without freezing up completely. I have a partition on my hard drive with Windows installed and tried booting up from that, but no luck. I've also gone in as a single user and changed the drive permissions (that worked once, but hasn't since then). I've done a hardware test and that didn't turn anything up. I can't think of anything else to try. Any ideas? I'm stumped.
Boring details:
Macbook Pro approx. 3 years old.
4GB 1600MHz memory
Approx 100GB free on hard drive
OS X 10.6.8

I did that when using singe-user startup. That worked at first but not anymore. I would reinstall the OS, but I'm out of the country and without a disc.

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