Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage Subject: Re: MacBook Pro (MBP) gets stuck during its boot ups and tests, disk's I/O error in verbose bootup, & unable to repair! Date: 28 Sep 2015 03:43:00 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <56037e3c$0$65400$c3e8da3$e074e489@news.astraweb.com> <56037f2c$0$65400$c3e8da3$e074e489@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net MnJV8tfdR/yWCOccGJHi5gB2zz6eRkQL5NGEIh9Mbwuu6KJKoV Cancel-Lock: sha1:7jYhqfaRWe7eJrpVJLLRCRdC9e0= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:80864 comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc:1813 comp.sys.mac.portables:797 comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage:826 On 2015-09-28, Ant wrote: >> What I really meant was that you should VERIFY first without repairing >> so that you can see what problems are encountered without Disk Utility >> trying to correct them (which modifies the disk). > > Hello again. I finally got the broken MBP to deal with. > > I did a quick test. During Apple Hardware Test, it showed 1 minute and > 50 seconds left this time. This never changes. It is always stuck at > this time in phase 1. I noticed the trackpad mouse cursor was very > lagged by about three seconds seconds. I don't think that is normal. > Also, I was unable to stop the test with the laggy trackpad and shortcut > keys (command/Apple+T). I had do a manual power button method to > shutdown and reboot. > > I booted up to the local Mac OS X Recovery and ran two verifications and > a repair due to problems and failures. You can see > http://imgur.com/a/UytFX for three iPhone 6's camera shots for those > results. Whatever happened, it wasn't good. It's possible he bumped or dropped the computer while the disk was reading or writing, which could have resulted in damaging portions of the disk. Erasing will map out any bad sectors as long as the sectors aren't in critical areas used for boot & directory management. > Speaking of taking pictures, can Mac OS X's Recovery do screen > shots to an external USB drive or so? Not that I know of, no. > So, I did a Time Machine restore from an external USB2 HDD. It already > erased the 750.16 GB HDD, and it is currently taking about a couple > hours to complete. So far, no problems with over 18.1% done. I hope this > works since this is all new to me with Macs. :/ I'd be sure to run another Verify Disk after you've restored everything to ensure no errors are reported. And be sure he backs it up regularly afterwards. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR