White folder with ? when I try and boot my MacBook

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  1. l4t13, Apr 17, 2008

    l4t13 macrumors regular

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    Hello, I keep getting a grey folder with a question mark and white back ground when I try and boot up my MacBook. Any ideas on how I can fix it? I will try a complete restore Saturday when I get home from college.

    The problem started when I tried to wake my computer up. The MacBook wouldn't give me a log in screen so I held the power button for forced restart then it happened.

    Thanks
     
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  2. xUKHCx, Apr 17, 2008

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    You can try clearing your PRAM by holding down Command-Option-P-R keys on boot.

    If that doesn't work try repairing the drive using disk utility once you have booted from your install DVD.
     
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  3. iBlue, Apr 17, 2008

    iBlue macrumors Core

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    sounds like it can't find your startup disk

    here's a link
     
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  4. LastLine, Apr 17, 2008

    LastLine macrumors 65816

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    Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)

    Had same problem this week. Went to apple store and they just replaced the disk as apparently it had died, was under warranty still though.
     
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