I haven't used my macbook air in about a week or so. I turn it on (by waking it up, it was already on) today at lunch and see a grey apple and little indicator moving around in circles. This goes on forever. So I try to reboot. Same thing. So I do some poking around on the net and try some other things. I try booting in safe mode by holding shift, I then get a little bar that fills up and then the same grey apple and wheel. So I try booting up with OS Snow Leopard disc. I get to a screen where I verify the disc, it says its fine. I repair anyway. No errors found. I run the verify disc parameters option and it finds a bunch of stuff that's mismatched. I repair and then reboot. Same little grey apple and spinner. So I boot back up with the drive and tell it to install OS Snow Leopard. 45 minutes later I come back and it's at the infamous grey apple again, LOL.
So just now I went back to the disk utilities and ran verify disc. It found all sorts of errors. It recommended I repair the disc. So I've begun the repair process. I'm now going to go drink some beer because this is giving me a headache.
My questions for mac gurus are as follows:
1. Any more recommendations to try to fix it myself? If so, please be pretty clear as I'm not really Mac savvy..
2. If I need to take it in to get it fixed where do you recommend I take it? Apple? Best Buy?
3. For the future, once I get it fixed, what do you recommend I do to back it up most easily? I was going to just buy a Time Capsule but on Amazon there's a lot of people saying not to get them as they fail a lot.
4. If I do get a Time Capsule, could I keep my Linksys running downstairs and just plug the Time Capsule into the switch I have upstairs for my Mac and iPad? I really don't want to reconfigure a router for my laptop/Xbox/PS3 downstairs as they are all running great so I was thinking about trying something like this idea..
Also, just one more thing. I really only use the laptop to surf the net while I eat lunch each day, I never download anything at all on it so it's probably not a virus (although I have it set to d/L updates so I wonder if an update was downloaded and f'ed it up). I also really don't have an issue with restoring it as it was when I first got it but I don't believe my laptop came with any restore CD (does anyone know if Macbook Airs do? If so, I'll look for it). At this point I just want a MBA that works.
Any insight is greatly appreciated before I do the walk of shame to the local mall, LOL
So just now I went back to the disk utilities and ran verify disc. It found all sorts of errors. It recommended I repair the disc. So I've begun the repair process. I'm now going to go drink some beer because this is giving me a headache.
My questions for mac gurus are as follows:
1. Any more recommendations to try to fix it myself? If so, please be pretty clear as I'm not really Mac savvy..
2. If I need to take it in to get it fixed where do you recommend I take it? Apple? Best Buy?
3. For the future, once I get it fixed, what do you recommend I do to back it up most easily? I was going to just buy a Time Capsule but on Amazon there's a lot of people saying not to get them as they fail a lot.
4. If I do get a Time Capsule, could I keep my Linksys running downstairs and just plug the Time Capsule into the switch I have upstairs for my Mac and iPad? I really don't want to reconfigure a router for my laptop/Xbox/PS3 downstairs as they are all running great so I was thinking about trying something like this idea..
Also, just one more thing. I really only use the laptop to surf the net while I eat lunch each day, I never download anything at all on it so it's probably not a virus (although I have it set to d/L updates so I wonder if an update was downloaded and f'ed it up). I also really don't have an issue with restoring it as it was when I first got it but I don't believe my laptop came with any restore CD (does anyone know if Macbook Airs do? If so, I'll look for it). At this point I just want a MBA that works.
Any insight is greatly appreciated before I do the walk of shame to the local mall, LOL
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