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wwjd79

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Apr 29, 2010
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Hi. This is my first time posting because I usually get my answers from any previous topics but the problem I have right now there are nothing out there for me.

Long story short, when I boot my computer, it goes to a "DOS" screen and tells me that there is no bootable drive. So I try again pressing down the alt button and I get my mbp hard drive option. I click on it and after about 15 minutes screen comes up (my last view before turning off last night) and mouse is the only thing working. (everything else frozen). I used to run bootcamp with windows 7 before but I've cleaned out the hard drive and was only running snow leopard. Can anyone help?

people at the apple store told me its a hard drive problem. I got a new hard drive and I'm still getting the dos prompt. Also, tried installing Leopard again and it freezes on me. I have no clue...

15 inch MBP (late 2008 model)
2.8ghz
4gb memory

thanks.
 
yeah but the install freezes with 20 minutes remaining. tried it 3 times.
 
tried AHP test. no hardware issues found.... perhaps my laptop is really dead...
 
yeah but the install freezes with 20 minutes remaining. tried it 3 times.

When you say the install freezes, does that mean you are trying to re-install Mac OS X? If so,don't do that, just select the DVD as the boot drive and boot from that. It contains a working copy of OS X.

Does it boot OK &in a reasonable time (slower than booting from a hard disk though)?
 
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