Mid 2011 MacBook Air flashing question mark folder

[masterjedi73]

I rarely turn off this computer and it has run like a champ. The only other issue with it is that the battery needs to be replaced. I keep it plugged in, and when i don’t get about 30 minutes of usage out of it.

Last week, I opened it and it had the flashing question mark folder. It had already been on. I restarted it and it was fine.

Yesterday I had used it, left it open, and went back to it a few hours later and it had the flashing question mark folder again.

Any ideas what’s going on? Thanks!

 

[Fishrrman]

The flashing question mark means that the Mac can't find a copy of the OS from which to boot.

I'd suggest booting to the recovery partition, and then running disk utility on the internal drive.
Use the "first aid" button.

 

[masterjedi73]

Thanks. I did that and it was fine. I rebooted it and now it’s constantly freezing. Methinks a new Mac is in my future.