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Hi all,
Little bit concerned about my MacBook (black 2008 C2D 2.4 version) – I restarted it the other day which just resulted in the grey loading screen hanging. Occasionally there’d be a loading bar across the bottom (never seemed to compete) and other times the spinning wheel would be the only thing present.
I tried the NVRAM, PRAM and SMC, battery out etc... to no avail. When I managed to get it to boot with the snow leopard DVD (took much longer than I remembered before), and ran Disk Utility there was an error: something about a ‘Btree error’, which it couldn’t fix, so I erased/re-formatted and the error is now gone).
When trying to restore from a Time Machine backup (booting from the DVD), the same thing happens (and it takes best part of 2 ½ hours) – grey loading screen hang. I’ve tried this for several of the time disk backups (tired earlier ones in case there was something wrong with the last back-up).
However, if I do a fresh install (which is quite annoying as I’ll have to reinstall programmes/photos/music and all my settings etc) it seems to work okay.
My initial thought was that the HD was on its way out, but I’m a bit surprised that I managed to do a clean re-install okay, and (so far) seems to be working. If it’s a case of the HD failing, I’m not too worried about getting a new one – I can sort that out pretty easily and it’s only about £45 or so for a new (possibly bigger/better) one. I’m pretty sure I can install it too. What I’m not keen on is buying a new one and there being a much serious problem that’s causing this...
Anyone seen this before or any thoughts on what could be causing it?
Cheers in advance,
Rich
Little bit concerned about my MacBook (black 2008 C2D 2.4 version) – I restarted it the other day which just resulted in the grey loading screen hanging. Occasionally there’d be a loading bar across the bottom (never seemed to compete) and other times the spinning wheel would be the only thing present.
I tried the NVRAM, PRAM and SMC, battery out etc... to no avail. When I managed to get it to boot with the snow leopard DVD (took much longer than I remembered before), and ran Disk Utility there was an error: something about a ‘Btree error’, which it couldn’t fix, so I erased/re-formatted and the error is now gone).
When trying to restore from a Time Machine backup (booting from the DVD), the same thing happens (and it takes best part of 2 ½ hours) – grey loading screen hang. I’ve tried this for several of the time disk backups (tired earlier ones in case there was something wrong with the last back-up).
However, if I do a fresh install (which is quite annoying as I’ll have to reinstall programmes/photos/music and all my settings etc) it seems to work okay.
My initial thought was that the HD was on its way out, but I’m a bit surprised that I managed to do a clean re-install okay, and (so far) seems to be working. If it’s a case of the HD failing, I’m not too worried about getting a new one – I can sort that out pretty easily and it’s only about £45 or so for a new (possibly bigger/better) one. I’m pretty sure I can install it too. What I’m not keen on is buying a new one and there being a much serious problem that’s causing this...
Anyone seen this before or any thoughts on what could be causing it?
Cheers in advance,
Rich