Quick simple yes or no question. Enlighten me!! :)

[Reno404]

Hey guys.

So today i woke up with the dreaded white screen - question mark booting problem. Inserted the OS X disc, started up pushing "c", and arrived in the disk utility.

There, he can't find my BlackBook's hard drive.

Does this mean it's dead, i should buy a new one, and all on it is lost?

 

[Virgil-TB2]

Hey guys.

So today i woke up with the dreaded white screen - question mark booting problem. Inserted the OS X disc, started up pushing "c", and arrived in the disk utility.

There, he can't find my BlackBook's hard drive.

Does this mean it's dead, i should buy a new one, and all on it is lost?

Usually that would mean that the HD is dead.

Try booting up in Target mode (hold down the "t" key). If that works, you can connect it to another computer and examine the drive remotely.

The good news is that MacBook drives can be replaced as easy as pie. They just slide out once you remove the battery. So if it has to be replaced or fixed it wont take any time to do it.

The bad news is if the drive is toast and you don't have a backup, you will either lose everything or be paying a data recovery service a fortune to get it back.

 

[lamina]

Yes, yes, and yes.

 

[mankar4]

you should be able to recover the data if you take it to a data recovery place.