Hi, new to forum,
I have a 2007 Macbook that has just recently stopped booting up. It turns on with the chime, then goes to a grey screen, which if you leave it long enough will show a question mark over a briefcase. I ran disc utility and it showed up the harddrive, and allowed me to "repair the disc" and also run permissions repair.
However i still cant log in, its taking longer and longer to get into utility when booting from the disc. I fear the worst, now all i want is to secure the data (over 30 gigs of photos precisely), as my back up was corrupted some time ago, and i hadnt got back to making another copy. I really need those photos more than anything else, and if i have to take it to the mac store, so be it, i just want anyones ideas what to do to prvent any data loss more than possible
thanks in advance
Rose
I have a 2007 Macbook that has just recently stopped booting up. It turns on with the chime, then goes to a grey screen, which if you leave it long enough will show a question mark over a briefcase. I ran disc utility and it showed up the harddrive, and allowed me to "repair the disc" and also run permissions repair.
However i still cant log in, its taking longer and longer to get into utility when booting from the disc. I fear the worst, now all i want is to secure the data (over 30 gigs of photos precisely), as my back up was corrupted some time ago, and i hadnt got back to making another copy. I really need those photos more than anything else, and if i have to take it to the mac store, so be it, i just want anyones ideas what to do to prvent any data loss more than possible
thanks in advance
Rose