17" MacBook Pro won't start!
Normally it acts like it wants to boot:
Grey Apple & Progress Bar that goes on about the first third of the way and then
either goes white forever (never shows anything expect a white screen) or it drops
to black with a little chunk noise and does it all again but still never goes beyond
the white. I've reseated and swapped out the memory, done the SMC reset; and even
taken the hard drive out and booted up my MACPRO with it in a USB adapter box (nothing seems wrong with the hard drive).
It "will" start up in Single User Mode and I ran FSCK on it which didn't help!
It's got El Capitan on it.
Oh, I also tried to start up from another external hard drive I have with 10.9 on it (but maybe that's too old).
Is this a good question?
3 Comments
If you have Diskwarrior try running that.
by Matt M
Had you just done a system upgrade?
by mayer
Someone updated to El Capitan whenever it first showed up; this is a teacher's computer and we don't put hands on it unless something is wrong.
I'm not current on Diskwarrior (not since they stopped shipping on disks) and I'm paying for it out of my pocket so I'd just as soon not do that until after the first of the year.
I don't see how it could be the hard drive or software when the same drive will boot my desktop MacPro and passes all the tests (sorry I didn't say that).
by John Davies