Ok. A couple day ago I wanted to do a fresh install because I had Leopard and Lion on two separate partitions and I wanted the new Lion update that'd let me use pro tools 9. I had 70 some-odd gigs on leopard and the rest on Lion with a 320gb hard drive. Bought this macbook pro new a little under a year ago (mid 2011. When I tried to boot up by holding "C," I got a kernel panic but didn't know what it was at the time. That was part of the reason why I wanted to do a fresh install. I backed up all my files, booted from my leopard cd, I could only erase the free space on my hard drive, and haven't been able to do anything else since.. Booting while holding C gave me a panic everytime. I've checked and verified the disk a million times in disk utility. After erasing my hard drive, it was saying that it couldn't unmount so I wasn't able to reformat it. I can't boot from the cd, it gives me a panic. Sooo today.. I went to fry's... Bought a $25 kit to open my macbook. Took out the hard drive, put it in an enclosure, got on my gf's windows pc, reformatted it and erased everything left on it hoping that it'd stop saying it was unable to be unmounted.. Also, I took out my ram, each one only leaving one in both times and booted. Sooo my ram's not the issue unless both of them are "gone" for some reason. Not my hard drive because I wiped it cleaner than baby booty.. I've been resetting the pr ram this whole time.. I've done everything this forum and everyone on the net's said about this 18 times over.. After reformatting, I'm getting a white screen with a gray blinking folder. After spending money on the enclosure and the tools that I wanted to keep in case this happened again, I really don't want to pay $50-$60 to apple to get this fixed this one time.. Please tell me what I should do.
Please don't tell me to start with C, cmd option, cmd r, boot from my cd, or check the disk. None of these work by any means.. I absolutely can't get to disk utility unless you know another way I haven't heard of.. I really want to get this done like yesterday because I have deadlines for projects for people that I can't even fulfill because I'm wasting time with this which means I'll be even more broke...
Please don't tell me to start with C, cmd option, cmd r, boot from my cd, or check the disk. None of these work by any means.. I absolutely can't get to disk utility unless you know another way I haven't heard of.. I really want to get this done like yesterday because I have deadlines for projects for people that I can't even fulfill because I'm wasting time with this which means I'll be even more broke...
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