Hi, hope I'm posting in the right place
I have a late 2009 MacBook Pro, base spec but upgraded to 8GB RAM from Crucial.
This morning I was uploading some files to Photobucket when it crashed and had to force shut down. When starting up it now chimes and gets to the grey screen with Apple logo and loading wheel but won't get any further.
I have tried to boot into safe mode with no luck. I managed to copy down the final half screen of the boot commands from the safe mode boot
I reset the PRAM but it still won't boot.
I have no OSX disc to try Disk Utility.
I haven't tried swapping back the RAM yet but didn't want to go through that until I'd had advice from here. Is it worth doing or is it what I keep reading - the hard disk?
Very annoying if it is as I stupidly haven't backed it up and was less than a week away from doing so to install a new HDD as this one has less than 1GB space left. Don't suppose that has anything to do with it?
Is there anything else worth trying before I buy a new hard drive or give it and my money to Apple? I guess there's no way of getting any files from the hard drive if it is dead?
Thanks for any help.
I have a late 2009 MacBook Pro, base spec but upgraded to 8GB RAM from Crucial.
This morning I was uploading some files to Photobucket when it crashed and had to force shut down. When starting up it now chimes and gets to the grey screen with Apple logo and loading wheel but won't get any further.
I have tried to boot into safe mode with no luck. I managed to copy down the final half screen of the boot commands from the safe mode boot
** /dev/rdisk0s2 (NO WRITE)
** Root file system
Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-540.1-34)
disk0s2: I/O error
/dev/rdisk0s2 (hfs) EXITED WITH SIGNAL 8
Running safe fsck on the boot volume…
** /dev/rdisk0s2
** root file system
Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-540.1-34)
disk0s2: I/O error
** Checking journaled HFS Plus volume
disk0s2: I/O error
Invalid B-tree node size
(4, 0)
** The volume could not be verified completely
/dev/rdisk0s2 (hfs) EXITED WITH SIGNAL 8
fsck failed!
Kext loading now disabled
Kext unloading now disabled
Kext auto unloading now disabled
Kernal requests now disabled
Continuing
I reset the PRAM but it still won't boot.
I have no OSX disc to try Disk Utility.
I haven't tried swapping back the RAM yet but didn't want to go through that until I'd had advice from here. Is it worth doing or is it what I keep reading - the hard disk?
Very annoying if it is as I stupidly haven't backed it up and was less than a week away from doing so to install a new HDD as this one has less than 1GB space left. Don't suppose that has anything to do with it?
Is there anything else worth trying before I buy a new hard drive or give it and my money to Apple? I guess there's no way of getting any files from the hard drive if it is dead?
Thanks for any help.