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WillMak
Jun 11, 2008, 05:12 PM
MY macbook won't start up properly and When i tried to start up it gave me a folder with a question mark on it. I tried again...and then it gave me a RED SCREEN! It chilled me to the bone! What does it mean!?


leekohler
Jun 11, 2008, 05:36 PM
MY macbook won't start up properly and When i tried to start up it gave me a folder with a question mark on it. I tried again...and then it gave me a RED SCREEN! It chilled me to the bone! What does it mean!?

Your hard drive has likely come unseated, your system software went bad, or you hard drive died. Try starting up with your system software disc.
WillMak
Jun 11, 2008, 06:05 PM
Your hard drive has likely come unseated, your system software went bad, or you hard drive died. Try starting up with your system software disc.

My DCD Drive is broken unfortunately. I have an external dvd drive. but holding down C doesn't do anything when i start up...:(
MacHappytjg
Jun 11, 2008, 06:10 PM
My DCD Drive is broken unfortunately. I have an external dvd drive. but holding down C doesn't do anything when i start up...:(

i think only firwire drives work unffortinitly in ur case but i heard from somone on intels usb works?
WillMak
Jun 11, 2008, 06:14 PM
i think only firwire drives work unffortinitly in ur case but i heard from somone on intels usb works?

Hmm...Is there a different command to boot from external DVD drive? The closest thing i found was command+shift+option+delete but that seems to imply internal or external Harddrives.
MacHappytjg
Jun 11, 2008, 06:29 PM
Hmm...Is there a different command to boot from external DVD drive? The closest thing i found was command+shift+option+delete but that seems to imply internal or external Harddrives.

mm if u just hit option id sees the dvd and harddrive as like icons or w.e u want to call them
WillMak
Jun 11, 2008, 06:37 PM
mm if u just hit option id sees the dvd and harddrive as like icons or w.e u want to call them

huh?
Bobioden
Jun 11, 2008, 07:33 PM
mm if u just hit option id sees the dvd and harddrive as like icons or w.e u want to call them

huh?

English is not his first language. Either is using spell check, commas, periods, capital letters, etc......
leekohler
Jun 12, 2008, 07:10 PM
Any luck with this? Please let us know...
tsice19
Jun 12, 2008, 09:41 PM
If it's within warranty, and there is a close by Apple Store, I'd definitely take it there for repairs.
jackiecanev2
Jun 13, 2008, 06:28 AM
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)

Hmm...Is there a different command to boot from external DVD drive? The closest thing i found was command+shift+option+delete but that seems to imply internal or external Harddrives.[/QUOTE]



mm if u just hit option id sees the dvd and harddrive as like icons or w.e u want to call them[/QUOTE]

Translation: if you hold down the option button at startup instead of c, you might get a boot option menu.



From my experience, the cmd-shift-opt-del will bypass the internal drive, I got my USB external booted from that way.