My laptop won’t start up
Mac is stuck on startup image and won’t get going? Don’t know what happened but unable to get started. Any advise or
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1 - Shut down your Mac and reset SMC and NVRAM in that order. Did that change anything? Were you able to boot again?
2 - Boot in Safe Mode: turn on your Mac while holding Shift key. If it goas all the way, reboot it normally and se what happens (Safe Mode does some tricks to the system).
3 - Boot from an installation bootable drive/disc, go to Disk Utility and run First Aid
4 - Before the last strike, if you have an external drive, install macOS on it and check if it works.
5 - Final strike: backup your data (you can use macOS installed on that external drive for it), erase your internal drive (partitions and everything) and reinstall macOS fresh and clean.
My laptop won’t start up