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My laptop was closed and suddenly the start up sound chimed and now the progress bar gets stuck at the halfway mark for hours on end. I DO NOT have auto updates I’ve tried Resetting NVRAM, same result thing progress bar only goes to halfwayResetting SMS, same results, slow boot stuck at halfwayCan not get to safe mode, the bar gets stuckCan not get into recovery or disk utility, I cannot get access to anything pass the boot up bar!I try holding option down but I only have 1 disk to choose from and it just leads to the same thing Please I just need to get to the desktop so I can back up my files and try to get a better machine.
Hello If you can’t boot into recovery but can see the disk in the startup manager, you may then be able to use target mode. You would then be able to use your Mac as an external hard drive on another Mac.
Regards Michael
