<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Al,<div>Good advice from Randy Singer.</div><div>Tech Tool Pro would be another alternative.</div><div>Cheers,</div><div>John</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 20, 2013, at 10:52 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 20, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Al Grappone wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Now I get a white screen with apple gray icon. Also a strange whirling sound . Noise continues but still the white screen. Thanks.</span></blockquote><br></div><div>The white screen means that your Mac is doing diagnostics on your hard drive. You should allow it to run uninterrupted.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7045">http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7045</a></div><div><br></div><div>If that doesn't fix things you might want to try doing a boot into Safe Mode by holding down the Shift key on restart. This will cause your Mac to run fsck in the background and repair the hard drive, if possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Or you can boot using a system installer disk and run Disk Utility to repair your hard drive, or, if you have it, you can boot from a Disk Warrior disk and use it to repair your hard drive.</div><br><div>
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