Mac book starts with blue screen startup disk full

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Why is my macbook air a1466 showin a file with a question mark when i turn it on and how do i fix it

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A flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac Symptoms

If you see a flashing question mark when you start your Mac, it's probably because it can't find the system software it needs to start up. Usually, all you have to do to get your Mac back up and running is remind it where its software is.
Resolution

If your computer starts up normally after a brief delay, you probably just need to reselect the startup disk in Startup Disk preferences. It's normal to see the flashing question mark when a startup disk has not been selected. In most cases, reselecting the startup disk is all that is required to resolve the issue.

Sometimes, your computer may not start beyond the flashing question mark.

Tip: If your computer has a gray screen (with no flashing question mark) startup issue, see Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup.

Check the mouse and keyboard

This issue might occur if a mouse or trackpad button is pressed during startup. Make sure the button isn't pressed.

If the issue persists, shut down your Mac with its power button, disconnect any external mouse and keyboard, then turn on your Mac with its power button. If the flashing question mark issue persists, reconnect the keyboard and mouse.

Additional steps

If your Mac still starts to a flashing question mark, follow the steps below. If any step resolves the issue, you don't need to continue to the next one.

Select your Mac OS X startup disk with Startup Manager by restarting and holding the Option key. After your Mac starts up, restart again to verify that the flashing question mark does not appear.
If the issue persists, insert your Mac OS X installation disc. Be sure to either use the disc that came with your Mac, or, if you installed a later Mac OS X version from disc, use the newer disc.

MacBook Air note: On a MacBook Air, there are two options for starting up from Mac OS X media: Either connect a MacBook Air SuperDrive to the MacBook Air via the USB port and restart the computer, holding down the C key during startup, or use Remote Install Mac OS X to startup from a system software DVD that's located on a partner computer. Once started up from Mac OS X media, skip to step 3.
Restart the computer, then hold the C key during startup.
From the Utilities menu, choose Disk Utility. Don't click Continue.
Select your Mac OS X disk (named "Macintosh HD" by default) in the left side of the Disk Utility window.
Click the First Aid tab.
Click Repair Disk to verify and repair any issues with your Mac OS X startup disk.
After repairing the disk, try to start up normally.

Important: If Disk Utility finds issues it cannot repair, you may need to back up as much of your data as possible (or use Time Machine to back up to a different disk), then erase the disk and reinstall Mac OS X. You should back up important files and data before erasing a drive. Erasing deletes everything on the hard disk (including things on your desktop). Also, you can install Mac OS X onto an external disk, start from the external disk, and use Migration Assistant to transfer items from your usual internal Mac OS X startup disk to the external disk, then erase the internal disk and reinstall Mac OS X.
If the issue persists, and Disk Utility didn't find any irreparable issues, quit Disk Utility, quit the Installer, select your disk when prompted, and restart.
If the issue continues, reset PRAM. Note: After resetting PRAM, if the computer starts up normally, reselect the startup disk in the Startup Disk preferences.
If none of these steps resolve the issue, start up from the Mac OS X Installation disc and reinstall Mac OS X.

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Mar 30, 2014 • Computers & Internet

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Can not get the mac pro osx 10 5 8 to start with the utility disk or with regular start up my on pilot lite keeps blinking

Put the Mac install disk back in. Try pressing command-option-escape to force quit. If nothing happens, then press command-control-power to force a restart. If that doesn't work, press and hold the power button for five seconds or so until the computer shuts down. Power up the computer again, and hold the option key so you can select the instal disc for startup. Run Disk Utility again. Sometimes you get a tangled file reference that requires several tries to undo - this could be calling the sleep routine instead of what it's supposed to do.

May 28, 2013 • Computers & Internet

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My apple mac laptop says the hard drive is full . How do I totally restore and start the system again?

Hi,
Depending on the version of OSx you have;

Pre 10.7 you are provided OSx Disks. Simply insert the Disk and the installer will appear on your screen, run through that, it will reboot and starup off the disk. At the option of installation destination you can change the option to erase the Hard Drive and install.

Post 10.7 you will need to restart/power on your mac and hold the Option key [left of the CMD key] and you will see your hard drive and a recovery partition. Same process after that..

Hope this helps :)

Sep 25, 2012 • Apple Customized 15" MacBook Pro Laptop...

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White screen on startup

Thank for contacting Fixya, I will be glad to assist you.

When experiencing an issue with booting up to a white screen, you can perform several steps to attempt to resolve this issue.

Option 1:

• First, hold in your power button for approximately 10 seconds to do a hard shutdown, if your Mac is not already turned off.

• Once your Mac is shutdown, you will need to perform what is called a PRAM reset (Parameter RAM)

• Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously .

• Turn on the computer.
• Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.

• Now, hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the start up sound for a 2nd time.

• Release the keys and allow the Mac to start up.

If this procedure does not resolve your white screen issue, try this next option below.

Option 2:

-PMU RESET-
The Power Manager is an integrated circuit (computer chip) that is usually on the logic board of your Mac computer.

It is responsible for power management of the computer. It controls backlighting, hard disk spin down, sleep and wake, some charging aspects, trackpad control, and some input/output as it relates to the computer sleeping.

• If the computer is on, turn it off.
• Disconnect all the connections going into the Mac except for the Power cord.
• Once all connections have been disconnected, remove the power cord from the Mac.
• Wait 20 seconds.
• Reconnect the keyboard, mouse and power cord back into the computer.
• Press the Power button to restart the Mac computer.

Let me know if either of these processes help resolve this white screen issue.

Thank you.

Regards,

-The MacTechTrainer

Jul 13, 2012 • Apple iMac G4 Desktop

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When powering it up it starts to boot I get a blue screen then it goes black where do I start ?

Try starting your mac from it's install disc.
1) First turn off your computer.
2) Then restart it, right when you push the power button to turn it on, press the option key down and hold it
3) pressing the option key will bring to a screen where you can choose your startup disk. Usually, you'll see your Macintosh HD available to startup from. Don't choose anything yet.
4) Insert your install disc into the CD slot.
5) wait a couple of seconds and then clock on your install disc as your startup option.
6) after clicking on the disc, go to the menubar and click on Utilities then disk utility.
7)once the disk utility app is open hit "verify disk permissions"
8) after you've "verified disk permission" hit "repair disk permissions"
- this might take a long time depending how much you've actually done this (which it's good to do every other month or so to keep your mac running smoothly). things might seem to freeze up as well, but it's the mac trying to verify and repair broken permissions on your computer. Don't that's normal.
9) after you have repaired the disk permission, reboot your mac by quitting disk utility and then choosing the startup disk as your normal macintosh HD. That should do the trick. If not, tell us what has changed.

Dec 15, 2010 • Apple PowerBook G4 Mac Notebook

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I have a power book g4 (13 inch screen) that will not boot-up. Can someone please try to help? Here's the problem. When I turn on the computer, I hear the chimes, I get the gray screen with the apple...

Boot up from the system disks that came with the computer. Put disk in drive and start up holding down C key. Troubleshoot from there.

Nov 27, 2010 • Apple PowerBook G4 Mac Notebook

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My mac book 13 frozen with blue screen. start up disk full. managed to get on to interenet through the Mac OS X software option on my apple thing. but cant get to my files to delete or transfer to my...

Hi,

There could be many known issues related to the blue screen. I would have mentioned few steps in this mail but i rather provide you with the steps guiding to online website.

Click on the Troubleshooting link and follow the steps accordingly :
Troubleshooting Link

Also, Try this step below as well

1) Put in the install CD that came with your Mac, reboot, hold down the letter C after you hear the chime, and when it boots to the installer, pick a language, and then run Disk Utility by finding it in the top menu.

2) Instead of holding down C at startup, hold down the letter D and make sure all your hardware's okay.

Nov 09, 2010 • Apple MacBook 13"White /2.0Ghz Intel Core2...

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My Mac Book will only go as far as a blue screen with a folder flashing a question mark. What does this mean?(also there's a ticking sound near the DVD drive when i first start up)

The DVD ticking sound is normal and happens every time you power on. The blue screen of death is not normal. The flashing question mark means corrupt start up file. Re-install the operating system or insert disc 1 of your gray install disc and go into disk utilities and select repair permissions. Then select repair hard drive.

Oct 19, 2010 • Apple MacBook 13"White /2.0Ghz Intel Core2...

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Mac book chimes on start up but no screen comes on

Make sure the MagSafe adapter is securely attached to the Macbook and free of debris.

There are two procedures that are advised by Apple to assist in resolving issues where the Macbook chimes at start up, but displays no video.

Here is the first procedure:
Here are some steps you can try to resolve the issue:

• First, hold in your power button for approximately 10 seconds to do a hard shutdown, if you have not already turned your Mac off.

• Once your Mac is shutdown, you will need to perform what is called a PRAM reset (Parameter RAM)

• Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously .

• Turn on the computer.
• Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.

• Now, hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the third time.

• Release the keys and allow the Macbook to start up.

Observe to see if your Macbook will boot to the Desk top normally. If it does not, here is the second procedure:
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-SMC RESET-
The System Management Controller is an integrated circuit (computer chip) that is usually on the logic board of your Mac computer.

It is responsible for power management of the computer. It controls backlighting, hard disk spin down, sleep and wake, some charging aspects, trackpad control, and some input/output as it relates to the computer sleeping.

• If the computer is on, turn it off.
• Disconnect the AC adapter and remove the computer's battery.
• Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds
and then release the button.
• Reconnect the battery and AC Adapter.
• Press the power button to restart the computer

Update me if you require further assistance.

Regards,

-Mactechtrainer

Jan 31, 2010 • Apple MacBook 13"White /2.0Ghz Intel Core2...

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I have a 13 inch mac book and when i turn it on the screen goes white with a file that pops up...and also when i turn it on it makes that sound of when you turn a regular apple computer on but its just...

Does the file (or folder) have a little ? symbol on it? If this is the case, it is not finding the startup disk. Try putting in the Mac OSX CD that came with it in the drive and then start up from that (hold the 'c' key down when you press the power button and it should start form the CD). When the CD is loaded, run disk utility to check the Mac hard drive. This may resolve the issue. Otherwise it could be a hard drive failure - in which case it may need to go for repair.

Aug 28, 2009 • Apple MacBook 13"White /2.0Ghz Intel Core2...

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Your disk partition is having problem.if u have not taken backup then boot the system with FW mode with saperate Laptop and backup the data,then repartition the hdd and install freshly

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You need to understand what is taking up all of startup disk space on your Mac. Then clean up your startup disk space based on the following ten aspects.

1. Clean up the cache file on Mac 2. Delete unnecessary language packs
3. Delete the old iTunes library backup
4. Remove old iOS backups
5. Remove iOS software updates
6. Remove unnecessary applications
7. Clean up your photo library
8. Clean up your downloads, movies, and music folders
9. Clean up your desktop
10. Empty out the trash can

If you find it difficult to clean these ones manually, you can download some Mac cleanup tools (such as my recently used iMyMac's Mac Cleaner software) to help you clean up these things.

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