My scenario: A Macbook pro laptop (around 2011 version) that refuses to boot up, and is stuck at the apple logo with spinning wheel.
Context: This issue came about, after putting the macbook on sleep mode for a very long period of time, around 4 weeks, before trying to wake it up. It failed to do so. The power button was held down to force power off. Powering it up again and it thus became stuck at the apple logo boot screen.
With the modern OS 's that come with the Mac like Lion and up, they were supposed to give users better options when it came to OS system recovery and restoration. They scrapped the traditional CD installations disks, and opted to go with methods like "Recovery partitions" and internet recovery.
While I believe their methods does work, and has helped many users, it however does not cater to every mac user who hits a corrupted drive, especially when coupled with poor access to the internet.
Below elaborates the options I tried to use to recover my macbook pro. It is not a solution-ing step-wise per-se, but it could help to educate the possible options you can try as well in your recovery. Images are only indicative, as they may not be the actual images captured during the troubleshooting.
