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MacBook pro taking forever to start. Gray screen w/ loading bar & gray wheel
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<blockquote data-quote="louishen" data-source="post: 1433639" data-attributes="member: 40142"><p>can you boot from the restore DVD</p><p></p><p>If so, if you have an external drive you can get to the installation screen and select Disk Utility from the menu bar, reformat an external drive, install OSX on that drive and boot from a clean USB disk, that will at least get you booted up and you can begin toubleshooting the internal drive from there</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="louishen, post: 1433639, member: 40142"] can you boot from the restore DVD If so, if you have an external drive you can get to the installation screen and select Disk Utility from the menu bar, reformat an external drive, install OSX on that drive and boot from a clean USB disk, that will at least get you booted up and you can begin toubleshooting the internal drive from there [/QUOTE]
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