What can be more frustrating than finding your Snow Leopard not starting up. Instead of the Finder, a blue screen appears and you have no access to important data that you want. No doubt, the situation is annoying, but it can turn to be a simple problem if you apply some Mac Recovery fixes to make your Mac bootable.
Before coming to the solutions, let’s consider a scenario depicting the discussed problem. When you try to start your Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard computer, you might find it not starting up. A blank blue screen may appear and no further startup process may occur. In place of blank blue screen, you may also see a blue screen with a colored pinwheel. Since the boot process doesn’t proceed, you have no data access.
Explanation
Most of such problems occur because there lie few corrupted or incompatible applications or startup items that might be preventing Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to start. This same issue has also been observed if you try to boot Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard computer from a DVD of another Mac model.
Steps to Resolve
In order to resolve the above issue, you should try the following steps:
• Start your computer in safe mode. If this works, you can choose Apple menu and then Restart to see if the computer restarts normally
• You can analyze it as a problem due to incompatible login items if the startup doesn’t proceed after appearance of a login window that asks for a user name and password. You need to remove such login items.
• Start Mac from its installation disc and use Disk Utility to repair the disk permissions and startup disk.
• If all the above measures fail, the last resort is to use installation disc to reinstall Mac OS X and restore all the data from backup.
In case of backup unavailability, you need a Mac File Recovery utility. A Mac Recovery software can help you recover lost files and folders after any type of logical crash with Mac systems.
Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is a reliable utility designed to run non-destructive algorithms and recover lost data from Mac systems. This Mac Data Recovery software is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.3.9 Panther.