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<blockquote data-quote="sticksnpicks" data-source="post: 1573782" data-attributes="member: 213446"><p>My Macbook crashed after searching on a massive amount of files with PhotoShop. The next time I tried to start it, I got stuck at the gray screen that has a circle with a line through it. I booted up from a Mac OS X Install DVD (the original one for this machine, Snow Leopard 10.6 something). That worked. I ran "repair permissions, and that process ran for hours and the machine got very hot. I finally shut it off. Later, I reinstalled the OS X, ran "repair permissions" (the partitions all looked normal and the repair process completed in 7 minutes), and was able to get to my regular log in screen, the usual apps, etc. The iTunes icon in the bottom taskbar was grayed out (I might have deleted images related to that by accident earlier), but everything else looked normal. However, I still can't get the laptop to start up on it's own. The only way I can boot is from the Install DVD. I do have two partitions on this - one for Mac, and one for Windows. Can someone please suggest what else I can try, so that I don't have to keep booting from the DVD? Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sticksnpicks, post: 1573782, member: 213446"] My Macbook crashed after searching on a massive amount of files with PhotoShop. The next time I tried to start it, I got stuck at the gray screen that has a circle with a line through it. I booted up from a Mac OS X Install DVD (the original one for this machine, Snow Leopard 10.6 something). That worked. I ran "repair permissions, and that process ran for hours and the machine got very hot. I finally shut it off. Later, I reinstalled the OS X, ran "repair permissions" (the partitions all looked normal and the repair process completed in 7 minutes), and was able to get to my regular log in screen, the usual apps, etc. The iTunes icon in the bottom taskbar was grayed out (I might have deleted images related to that by accident earlier), but everything else looked normal. However, I still can't get the laptop to start up on it's own. The only way I can boot is from the Install DVD. I do have two partitions on this - one for Mac, and one for Windows. Can someone please suggest what else I can try, so that I don't have to keep booting from the DVD? Thanks! [/QUOTE]
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