Macbook Pro stuck on blue scrren

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markku

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my macbook pro is stuck on this blue screen at startup. It does not load up at all. I have tried all of the following and none of them works:

-restart
-remove battery
-load OSX cd at startup (will not work because my disk drive does not read disks properly and also needs to be fixed)
-tried different key compinations, shift, x etc in order to boot into safe mode etc

None of the above works and basically, I don't have a clue how to get the computer running. I have never had this problem before. I think it started because I manually shut it down which I rarely do but did on this occasion. Also if it makes a difference, I run Vmware fusion with windows xp.

Anybody have a clue how to get it working? Is there a super secret key combo to get it running or do I just have to take it into a apple shop or something. HELP!!! THANKS!!!
 
The directory structure is probably hosed due to the power button shut downs. You will need to boot the installer and run disk utility and do a repair disk. Might want to try a safe boot by holding the shift key at start-up to start without extensions and force a disk check.
 
Thanks djackmac for your suggestions. unfortunetely, I cannot run the boot up disk because my cd drive does not work properly so it won't read the disk. I already tried holding shift at bootup but does not affect it.

Any other suggestions?
 
Macbook Pro? I have a Macbook.

Spend ~$30-50 and buy a good DVD burner/reader. I have suggestions since my apply named on Mac video/DVD fora as the MatSHITa "stupor" drives decided to stop burning.

Boot on that.

Then spend ~100 and get a Huge-Ass External Drive [Tm.--Ed.] and partition it to contain a clone/Time Machine/Whatever of your Internal Drive and a partition to place your crap--iTunes library, the IRS porn, et cetera.

Kill a fatted calf, sacrifice a virgin, and be merry.

--J.D.
 
Since my previous thread I have linked up another mac to my broken mac using target mode with a firewire. I ran a diagnostic repair and it looked to have got rid of some errors so i thoought it might do the trick. However when I started the broken one up again it still got stuck on the blue screen. I could access my hard drive in target mode and looked like all the data was still intact. Also, when I repooted I tried logging in with safe mode and that did not work as well.

Any idea's on an inexpensive (preferably free) way of getting it working?
 
While its connected through the other Mac through target disk mode, you can go to utilities/disk utility and run disk repair on the drive. You can post back here with what it comes up with.
 
Below is the message from the disk repair:

Verify and Repair disk “hard drive”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume hard drive appears to be OK.
Mounting Disk

1 HFS volume checked
No repairs were necessary


... and still only a blue screen at startup... any ideas? help...!!!!
 
What he wrote.

You have two approaches and let me explain:

Archive and Install:

This is the Snow Leopard "default." I looked for it in vain--it actually just does it if you click "Install."

Having frelled my volume recently
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--my thread where I deleted the wrong application :blush:--SL sort of automatically Archives and Installes. What I mean is that when I did that, it simply loaded a brand new OS--at 10.6--around "me." Worked fine.

The problem I caused--I describe it in the thread--is I "subfolder" my Applications. Unfortunately, Mac does not recognize that so put "new" copies of Applications in my Applications folder leaving copies. Trying to sort this out, I removed the wrong one
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.

SINCE I BACK UP MY DATA, it was easier to do the following:

Erase and Install:

I erased my Internal HD, then installed SL. Since you have a Macbook it came with Leopard installed and you can legally use just the SL upgrade disk to do this.

It will then ask you if you wish to create yourself and all of that. I simply activated Migration Assistant to migrate "me" from my back up.

Which . . . of course . . . also copied my extra copies of the Applications
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. . .

So, really, you can do EITHER IF you have "you" backed up. You should back yourself up if you have not. The simplest way to do that is go forth, get an External HD of AWESOME size--you can get 1TB to 2 TB for ~$100, hook up your sick Mac with the other Mac as you did above, and use a useful program like SuperDuper! so simply copy the data from your sick Macbook to your Ex-HD.

Then restart yourMacbook on your SL disk as you have done. If you have done this, you can simply try Archive and Install--the default--and see if that makes everything work.

Now . . . understand that not everything WILL work if you have updated software that expects something like 10.6.2--which my printer software "expected." So whilst this is going on, rather than surf your avian porn with your other Mac, download the Combo Updates--new on today!--and when you are done installing on your Macbook you can simply update the OS to 10.6.2 to 10.6.3.

--J.D.
 
Thanks for the suggestions.

Is there a way I can do this for free without having to use a program like "Super Duper" which costs $27.95. I really have no spare cash at the moment. I have transfered all of my files and important docs to my other mac. I would re-install leapard if my cd drive worked but it doesn't. Is there anyway of re-isnalling from my other mac (on which the cd drive does not work either..)
I am stuck.
 
You can use carbon copy cloner which is free or use disk utility. Here is a link from another post where I explained the process so I don't have to spell it all out again.

You may be able to boot the Mac with a working optical drive into target disk mode (by holding T at startup) with the installer in the drive and connect both computers via firewire. Then boot the Mac with the bad superdrive holding the option key to go into boot manager. If the installer shows as one of the boot options, try installing that way. Just make sure you repartition the drive correctly as GUID and Mac OS extended (journaled) for the format, or at least check to see that it has defaulted to that after doing a reformat in disk utility. And of course be very careful to select the correct drive in disk utility.
 
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