Macbook won't start up!!

[Gamy12]

Ok so I'm having big problems
My macbookwasreally, incredibly slow in imovie last night, so I turned it off and tried to restart, except it stuck on the evil grey screen with the apple and the spinning loading icon.
I left it to see if it would start up, but it hadn't worked so now I'm panicking and hoping you guys could help me

I searched this forum for an answer and tried the FSCK archive thing, but it came up with 'Singleuser boot -- fsck not done' and then further down

'If you want to make modifications to the files;
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw/

If you wish to book the system;
exit'

But I'm not exactly a technical person and I'll likely break it more if I fiddle!! please help!

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

See if this helps you out:

Reboot/Startup holding your Command-S key down.

At the command line type the following (pay attention to spaces in the code) and hit 'Return.'

/sbin/fsck -fy

If it finds a problem and repairs it, immediately run fsck again until the drive checks OK.

After it has check/repaired your disk, type 'reboot' and hit 'Return' again.

Post back how it goes

 

[Gamy12]

See if this helps you out:

Reboot/Startup holding your Command-S key down.

At the command line type the following (pay attention to spaces in the code) and hit 'Return.'

/sbin/fsck -fy

If it finds a problem and repairs it, immediately run fsck again until the drive checks OK.

After it has check/repaired your disk, type 'reboot' and hit 'Return' again.

Post back how it goes

Hey there, thank you for you're help,
I typed it in exactly how you've said, but it seems to not have done anything to it. Should I be seeing an obvious change? Or is there a way of doing it that I've got wrong?

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

Umm, are you saying that you ran fsck as per my post, fsck reported nothing wrong but then after you typed reboot you ended up at the evil grey screen again?

 

[Gamy12]

no sorry, I typed in the fsck code and pressed 'return' but nothing happened at all, as if it thought I hadn't finished

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

no sorry, I typed in the fsck code and pressed 'return' but nothing happened at all, as if it thought I hadn't finished

[I]/sbin/fsck -fy[/I]

Did you type using lower-case and leave a space between the fsck and the -fy?

See if this helps.

Or this.

 

[Walrus666]

You could also try repairing permissions and your disk, booted up from the installation disk, if you have it.