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<blockquote data-quote="bawheid" data-source="post: 1766810" data-attributes="member: 394699">hello there, back again and thanks for your advice.&nbsp; Family matters have stopped me getting back to this but, as above, I held option key at startup and saw two icons, one being hd recovery.clicked on it, but same as before, white screen.&nbsp; I then tried Lion Recovery download but might have got my knickers in a twist opening it up, although feel I may have read somewhere that certain things have to be in place for it to work.&nbsp;softwareI realise now (can't believe I didn't back up before doing anything, but there we are ) that before I even loaded ilife disc I started installing fujifilm software for an x-t1, but felt it was looking for a newer machine than mine, so I aborted it.then, after the freeze, I started deleting various bits, including windows office, by just dragging them to trash.the thing is in disk utility i can see a blue area on my hdd and in diskutil list iI can see recovery hd&nbsp; as dev 3 650mb.&nbsp; I also ran fsck in single user mode and got files have been modified, then subsequently all ok ( or whatever) but&nbsp; this is presumably referring to main drive as I am still stuck with being able to open properly only in safe mode, but obviously can't hear my music.I might look again at Lion recovery download, but we know what they say about people who repeatedly try the same thing hoping for a different out come.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bawheid, post: 1766810, member: 394699"] hello there, back again and thanks for your advice. Family matters have stopped me getting back to this but, as above, I held option key at startup and saw two icons, one being hd recovery. clicked on it, but same as before, white screen. I then tried Lion Recovery download but might have got my knickers in a twist opening it up, although feel I may have read somewhere that certain things have to be in place for it to work. software I realise now (can't believe I didn't back up before doing anything, but there we are ) that before I even loaded ilife disc I started installing fujifilm software for an x-t1, but felt it was looking for a newer machine than mine, so I aborted it. then, after the freeze, I started deleting various bits, including windows office, by just dragging them to trash. the thing is in disk utility i can see a blue area on my hdd and in diskutil list iI can see recovery hd as dev 3 650mb. I also ran fsck in single user mode and got files have been modified, then subsequently all ok ( or whatever) but this is presumably referring to main drive as I am still stuck with being able to open properly only in safe mode, but obviously can't hear my music. I might look again at Lion recovery download, but we know what they say about people who repeatedly try the same thing hoping for a different out come. [/QUOTE]

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