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xtine911

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Sep 14, 2010
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I was trying to boot up from my Snow Leopard disc last night to run Disk Utility (to repair my hard drive). I pressed C while starting up but it took me right to my login screen. I did this several times, no luck. I'm using a 15" MBP btw.

I also tried the same thing on my sister's MacBook (using her own install disc) -- same thing, straight to login screen.

I know pressing C used to work before because the MacBook used to belong to me and I did an erase & install before passing it down to my sister.

Is there anything I'm doing wrong?
 
Tried that too (both with the MacBook and the MBP) and I got a picture of a lock. I couldn't do anything except hit the power button to restart again.

Could that mean there's something wrong with both hard disks? Ran a disk check on Disk Utility and it says that my hard drive "appears to be ok." (for the MBP)
 
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