Hello Jessica,
I'm no expert on Mac's but I've played around with GNU Linux a lot. I
don't understand what you mean that the DVD doesn't work. Can you boot
from the DVD drive? Or is your DVD disk damaged and the machine can't
read it. If you have the option of booting from a USB or DVD drive. I'd
grab myself a copy of GRML or other talking GNU LINux distro. Then grab
a external drive. Boot into talking Linux then mount the external drive
and copy all files or image your Macbook drive. Then see about
formatting and starting again.
That's the independent way. But here in the UK, we have the genius bar
which I'd make an appointment and ask the experts what your options were.
Is it an older machine?
What version of OS X is it?
Are there any known hardware issues?
What may have caused this problem?
Good luck.
Gena
On 15/03/2013 18:05, Jessica Carter wrote:
Hi all,
Accidentally got MacBook Pro into safe mode. Then I was able to put it into
recovery mode, but it will not boot up from either the cd or the hard drive
partition where the recovery disk is.
I have run the verify disk and verify disk permissions. It's odd, because the
message that comes back is that everything is ok, but something is definitely
wrong. After not being able to start up from either the dvd or partition, a
repair disk permissions and repair disk was run.
I have thought about reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling everything.
But that would be a last resort option, as I have a lot of music and GarageBand
stuff on the Mac.
Oddly enough, I was going to backup everything, but this mess happened before
the backup could take place. :(
Any help with thiss issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Jess
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