Macbook stalled

[bravocharlie]

Hi.

My Macbook stalled yesterday. It will start up and I can move the mouse around on but not click on anything. Also the clock etc. in the right corner does not appear...

Any idea what to do???

 

[mad jew]

Try running fsck to repair the file system.

Have you made any changes to the hardware or software configuration recently? What exactly were you doing when this started?

 

[bravocharlie]

Hi, MJ. Thank you!

I was trying to install office on it, but it wouldn´t recognize the CD. Had to get it out by pressing the trackpadbutton while starting up.

So, I pop in my OS disc, start it up whgile pressin "c". Will it do anything to the documents on it?

 

[mad jew]

Ah, okay, you're booting from the CD. It'll take you to the OS installer but in one of the menus (one named Installer perhaps, I forget) there should be a link to Disk Utility. Click on it. From here, select your hard drive on the left hand side and click Repair Disk on the bottom right. This may take a little while but it won't (well, it shouldn't) delete anything or affect your documents in any way. Best of luck.

 

[netdog]

If Disk Utility fails to put you back in touch with your documents, try Data Rescue II. There is a demo download on their site that will let you see if DRII can see the data. It also ships with a boot disk. A really remarkable program.

 

[bravocharlie]

Thank you, both. as I am writing this (on the office PC), I am re-installing OS. Hopefully that should take care of things. I took out my files, starting up the Macbook as an external drive...