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<blockquote data-quote="erbster" data-source="post: 1609990" data-attributes="member: 285431">I came to turn on my 15&quot; 2011 MBP OSX10.9.5 today, which had been left in sleep mode for a few days. The battery was flat, so I connected to the power supply and left it for a couple of hours. I then turned it on (no longer connected to power) and it made the familiar bong and showed the apple logo; the screen then went grey, changed a few shades of grey and then stayed there, with a cursor on&nbsp; screen, but nothing else. I powered off and retried.&nbsp;I then booted successfully into the bootcamp partition, did my work in Windows and then tried rebooting into the OSX partition, with the same outcome as before.&nbsp;I booted to the recovery console and did a repair permissions and repair disk on the OSX partition; it didn't indicate any particular problems. Still didn't boot though. The OSX and Windows partitions are on the same physical hard disk, which is an SSD which I fitted myself about a year ago (no problems till now).&nbsp;These symptoms seem to indicate that there is not a problem with the hardware, as Windows boots and runs just fine. I am surmising that the problem might lie with the OSX partition.&nbsp;Any suggestions?Also, I should confess at this point that the disk has not been backed up fully, so there is some data I would like to recover ideally.....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="erbster, post: 1609990, member: 285431"] I came to turn on my 15" 2011 MBP OSX10.9.5 today, which had been left in sleep mode for a few days. The battery was flat, so I connected to the power supply and left it for a couple of hours. I then turned it on (no longer connected to power) and it made the familiar bong and showed the apple logo; the screen then went grey, changed a few shades of grey and then stayed there, with a cursor on screen, but nothing else. I powered off and retried. I then booted successfully into the bootcamp partition, did my work in Windows and then tried rebooting into the OSX partition, with the same outcome as before. I booted to the recovery console and did a repair permissions and repair disk on the OSX partition; it didn't indicate any particular problems. Still didn't boot though. The OSX and Windows partitions are on the same physical hard disk, which is an SSD which I fitted myself about a year ago (no problems till now). These symptoms seem to indicate that there is not a problem with the hardware, as Windows boots and runs just fine. I am surmising that the problem might lie with the OSX partition. Any suggestions? Also, I should confess at this point that the disk has not been backed up fully, so there is some data I would like to recover ideally..... [/QUOTE]

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