OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Macbook Pro Blue Screen With Spinning Disk, Won't Startup

Apr 18, 2012

macbook pro blue screen with spinning disk, won't start up. my macbook was really sluggish so i ran a hardware test. it said NO PROBLEMS. i did restart. my current login and password were REJECTED. then the macbook went into blue screen and it just sits there and flashes to gray and back to blue and the white lines that make up the circle icon just spin and spin.

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Blue Screen And Spinning Wheel At Startup

Apr 1, 2012

I had permission problems (locked time machine drive) so I did a full time machine restore.

Did the restart after the restore. Machine won't reboot. I get 'bong', apple logo on grey screen as per normal.

Then blue screen and spinning wheel for approx 7 seconds Then blue screen and black pointer for approx 2 seconds The blue screen spinning wheel / black pointer repeats. Also can't start up from Snow Leopard DVD.

I get exactly the same scenario. I have held down the power key at got the tone. Still won't start. It's an Imac (white one) 1.8Gig Dual with 1.5 gig of ram.

Running Snow leopard. I can see my disc over the ethernet; it is still there as it was sharing with my other machine.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Mar 4, 2010

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Dec 12, 2009

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Nov 9, 2009

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May 11, 2012

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Jun 10, 2012

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May 29, 2012

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Sep 28, 2009

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Aug 30, 2009

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Jun 9, 2010

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May 18, 2012

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Mar 15, 2012

My Snow leopard machine hangs during startup at the screen with the Grey Apple logo.  It appears there is a SW issue with my OS X boot partition.  Here are facts I have learned:The computer boots fine if I hold option at startup and select my boot camp partitionThe compute boots fine if I attach an external HD with OS X 10.6Running a disk repair from the external HD, I see the following two issues that are repaired.  Also, note the last line about boot partitionsAfter this disk repair, the disk will still not boot, it hangs at the Grey Apple logo.Booting in safe mode does not resolve the issue, the machine will still not boot to a desktopBooting in Verbose mode, drivers initialize with the last succesful line being the ethernet drives (I believe) and then the hangup occurs.  It is unclear what state the boot process is at on the hangup. 

This situation has happen twice in the past few weeks.  The first time I did a reinstall of OS X to resolve the issue.  Then, the issue appeared again approximately two weeks later.  I'm hoping to avoid a second reinstall (And really, avoid this issue in the future).  It seems perhaps something in the boot partition table or the OS partition, although disk utility says the partition is fine.  I have downloaded Test Disk 6.13 to look at the partition table, but I don't know how to interpret the outputs of that program.   

Info:
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Jun 27, 2012

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1)I have had around 8gb free for months, and these messages only started appearing in the last week. Each time I go "???" and look at my finder to see 8.4gb free or whatever, and I am like "WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME I AM OUT OF SPACE? 

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Nov 2, 2009

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During this freeze, I can still move my mouse, but I am unable to click on anything on the dock or any program. Moving the mouse over the dock does not invoke the magnification either. I have to do a hard reset to fix the problem.

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Apr 26, 2012

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Jan 7, 2010

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May 23, 2012

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Jul 30, 2010

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