Tracy, I had this problem a few months ago and found out that the hd was going bad and I had it replaced. Glad you got things going again. If you have an apple store near by you might want to take it and have them check things and make sure it is not going bad. HTH.
Matthew -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Traci Duncan Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 12:46 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Mac won’t start up and install OS * does a huge sigh of relief. Starting up in recovery mode and then repairing disks has seem to work. Thank you so much. Now I’m going to go back up my system. It is long overdue. Talk about a lesson. Traci Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 15, 2018, at 8:52 AM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, you can startup VoiceOVer in recovery mode, though it will not be a high > quality voice that comes up when you hit command-F5, and I doubt that VO > Utility is available either but it can read the menus and options. > > >> On Nov 15, 2018, at 11:42 AM, Traci Duncan <our4p...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Is booting up in recovery mode accessible? Voiceover will run? >> Thanks >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Nov 15, 2018, at 8:32 AM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> If you have created a bootable external drive you should try using that. >>> Also, you can try booting using the recovery or internet recovery options. >>> Not all systems have the latter ability, but you should be able to read >>> about your options for recovery booting from the Apple support pages. >>> >>> If you are able to do any of the above options, then it probably means >>> that your boot media has become corrupted. You have several options if this >>> is the case, depending on how important the information on your computer is >>> and how you have it backed up. >>> >>> If you can’t boot into recovery mode, and the logos on the startup are >>> visible, there will probably be a diagnostic code indicating what >>> components the computer thinks have issues. Also, with newer Mac Book >>> computers with the finger print sensor, the computer can be prevented from >>> running unauthorized operating systems. Though if this is your problem, you >>> should still be able to boot into recovery mode, and change security >>> options. >>> >>> HTH, >>> >>> Jonathan Cohn >>> >>>> On Nov 15, 2018, at 11:08 AM, Traci Duncan <our4p...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I am not sure if anyone can help me, but I’m a little concerned about my >>>> MacBook Air. It is a mid 2011. >>>> >>>> The only reason I kind of know what’s going on, is because I used Seeing >>>> AI on my iPhone. It looks like the iOS will not boot up or installed. 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