MacBook - Flashing Folder On Boot

Talbs13 · 6 Oct 2008 at 14:56

Hello There,

MacBook is not starting! When it boots all i get is a flashing folder with a question mark inside?

Has the hard drive gone to hard drive heaven?

Any help would be appreciated!

J

SoapSurgeon · 6 Oct 2008 at 18:29

Short answer - yes.

Long answer - the exact same thing has happened to a friend of mine. It appears it is completely screwed. Apple will replace it (if under warrenty) but don't let you keep your old hard drive, so if you need to recover data from it you will have to send it to a data recovery company before sending it to apple.

I hope you backed up your data

Talbs13 · 7 Oct 2008 at 00:46

This is a perfect excuse to buy a Macbook Pro.... right?

I could just buy a new hard drive, which will work i guess.

Hmm.

Fillado · 7 Oct 2008 at 19:59

Stick in your install disc, and when your Mac boots up hold D. This should load the Apple Hardware Test to allow you to be sure your HDD is dead

LordSplodge · 7 Oct 2008 at 21:19

Fillado said:
Stick in your install disc, and when your Mac boots up hold D. This should load the Apple Hardware Test to allow you to be sure your HDD is dead

dannyraul · 8 Oct 2008 at 16:48

Ive had the same thing happen to me with a Mac, I booted off the OSX install disk and did a disk repair in Disk Utility and that sorted it.

Talbs13 · 9 Oct 2008 at 11:02

When i tried the Disk Repair the HD was not present

Sometimes it boots into OSX but everything is going crazy, the top bit toolbar dissapears, no apps open. After a few min it just goes to a blue screen with the cog loading icon. I will try the "D" on startup and see if it does anything.