i have problem when i open the macbook i have folder icon with question mark. i need to Install os x. when i bought the macbook i didnt get disc what can i do?
Info:
MacBook Pro
I tried to turn on my mac book and the center of the screen is just a folder with a question mark.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI dropped my MacBook from a fairly low height the other day. Now when it boots up, the Flashing Folder-? Icon pops up. bummer. I've read around and tried everything I can find to try. I've read over posts such as: [URL]. Nothing works. My only problem is that I can't get it to boot the DVD startup disk at all. Everything I try ends with the disk being kicked out of the drive, or spinning for a while and then doing nothing.
View 2 Replies View Relateddisk utility is unable to repair the "Macintosh HD" disk. Re-installing mountain lion is not an option due to the computer's inability to detect the HDD disk. How do I differentiate between a corrupted (dead) hard drive or a broken SATA cable (in which acts as a medium)?
Info:
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)
My entourage will not open, it shows a ? over the icon when you click to open and does not do anything when you click open.
Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
My Mac just made my heart jump. When I rebooted, it just showed a blank grey screen for about 15 seconds. It then showed a folder with a blinking question mark. I had seen this before on iBooks at my school, and knew it wasn't a good sign. I held down the power button, and rebooted. This time, it started up without a hitch.
View 6 Replies View RelatedMac Pro 1.1, OS x 10.7 - installed storage hard drive in bay 2 now get flashing folder icon with ? mark
Info:
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5), os on drive in bay 1
What is the problem if you have a white screen with question mark in folder icon??
Info:
iMac, iOS 5.0.1
I turned it on today and it gave me a box around a little world, then it gave me the folder with a question mark and gave me the apple logo after that and booted into mac os x. It's really bothering me, is my machine dieing? Or is this just a software issue. A software issue, I can definitely handle if its just a reinstall of mac os x but if its the hard drive connection or logic board then my powerbook is a nice paperweight . Can anyone tell me why it did this and what I should do to fix it? I mean, it works but those symbols at the beginning I know aren't good to see. I recently installed onyx for OS X tiger and ran a few of the operations but I have restarted the computer flawlessly since then.
View 2 Replies View Relatedshut down the computer last night, woke up, turned on, and only get a white screen with a blinking question mark over a folder.
Info:
iMac
My PhotoBooth app has a question mark as the icon and it wont open, how do i fix it??
Info:
MacBook Pro, iOS 5.1
How do you change the hard drive icon picture in the top right corner to look like the macbook pro computer? I've seen this on a couple people's desktops and was just wondering how you do it. Also, how do you change the folder icon to something that looks cooler.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if anyone knows what causes a question mark icon to appear at the top of a finder window?
Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
After the last update required for Safari the icon desappeared and now there's a question mark in the same place. What happened?
Info:
MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
We own a very old model macbook and the startup screen appears as grey and an icon appears in the shape of a file with a question mark in the middle and the startup does not proceed from there.
Info:
MacBook
So I have a Black MacBook with 2gb of ram and a 160 gb hard drive. I have about 1gb left on my computer. The stuff I have that is taking up the space is all stuff that I need, I cant just dump it on to an external hard drive.
I have a problem where ocassionally I will start up my computer and instead of the apple logo showing up I see a folder with a question mark. I have to turn off the computer and let it sit and usually it will start up.
My question is, what is the cause of this problem, and what is the fix?
Is it the dangerously low amount of space?
If I upgrade the hard drive, will it fix it?
So I have a 07 black MacBook. I have the problem where sometime when I start up my computer and see the folder with a question mark.
I have around 1 gb of space left on my comp, which might be the problem.
My question is if I wipe my computer to sell it, will the issue be fixed??
My macbook is about two years old and recently have encountered problems. When I turn on the computer all I see is a blinking folder and question mark. I have tried putting in the install cd but it does not work. I try to reinstall mac os x but it tells me it could not be done. I have tried repairing the disk and numerous other things. I did not have anything truly important on the computer so I am not worried if I lose it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI replaced the HD on my macbook, and when I tried to start it up to install the OS, the question mark folder appears. I pressed the "C" key when I restarted and that did not work. I also pressed the option key and nothing. I just need to install the OS on my new HD.
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy MBP (mid 09) is showing a folder with a flashing question mark. I tried the usual things like PRAM Reset and booting with a external drive. I also changed the hard drive and could use it as a external drive on an other Mac - so this seems to work. Another drive could not be used too. The Apple Hardware Test does not work - my Super-drive is broken.
Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), MBP mid 09
On Saturday afternoon April 7th I was at the Apple Store and they ran a diagnostic on my Black Mac Book. All things checked out with green check marks. I was a happy person. Well, yesterday, at start-up, a strange gray folder with a question mark appeared.
Info:
MacBook, Lion OS
Yesterday when I open my computer it was frozen. After rebooting it a folder with a question mark came up. After I tried to reinstall the original software (10.4). The computer came up with a message saying that the software cannot be reinstalled. The computer also heats up and I can always hear the fan on high whenever it is on.
Info:
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5)
I have a macbook a1181 that I bought used that I believe has a failed hard drive. I get the question mark folder on startup and the clicking noise. Drive doesn't show up in the utility and osx 10.4.1 says cannot install on machine. Tried all options I could find online for the question mark folder. Thought I would try to format and reinstall osx 10.4.1 (grey) that I got with laptop but it says I cannot. I'm wondering if anyone has other ideas or if I just need to buy a new drive and a new copy of the os. And if so is there a recommend drive and os I should consider?
Info:
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.10), Black Intel machine
In the UK, I do not have the back up disk, i am getting the file folder with the question mark.
Info:
MacBook Pro
My wifes mac book worked fine yesterday and earlier today. During her last session (probably surfing the net) mac locked up. She attempted to restart it and now she has a flashing folder with a question mark. Of course the HD is full of info, pictures etc.
Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
I have a problem at the start up of the Macbook. It shows a flashing folder with a question mark. I don't have the installation disk that came with it. It was running Leopard OS X 10.5.8. If I buy Snow Leopard OS X 10.6, will it work?
Info:
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
my files from the harddrive..flashing folder with question mark when i turn it on..what should i do to fix and recover my datas!
Info:
MacBook Pro
i have an early 2011 macbook pro 2.7 i7 i have a folder with question mark flashing, i have replaced hard drive and also hard drive cable but can't see the hard drive, if iuse the old hard drive from usb the mac boots up, re fitting the old hard drive still does not show,
View 14 Replies View Relatedwell i just got back from vacation and I tried turning on my macbook, but it wouldn't startup. it made a clicking noise and all that appeared was a white screen and a folder with a flashing question mark inside it. I then put in the apple disk it came with and went to 'disk utility,' but it wasn't able to find my hard drive. Is there any way of retrieving the data on my hard drive, or even better, fixing my macbook? luckily, for me, my warranty just expired while I was on vacation, and I'm not able to talk to apple customer service without paying 50 bucks.
View 24 Replies View RelatedI have a 13" unibody MacBook running 10.5.8
When I start it up I get the Apple "chime" then the flashing folder with a question mark. Have tried all the standard procedures, ie. reset PRam, try to reboot i safe mode, single use mode etc... to no avail.
I can reboot from the install drive.
When I go to disk utilities my System Hard Drive shows up, passes Repair Disk Permissions as well as Repair Disk.
I can even go into Images>Scan Image for Restore and see all the files on my HD are still there - Documents, Photos, Apps, Desktop, Music. It shows how many folders and files there are. I can aslo go into System Profiler from the startup disk and the HD structure seems fine. So, I don't believe I have a catastrophic HD failure, but something else with hardware etc... Is there a ROM chip on a Mac that holds boot info similar to a Windows machine that has a BIOS chip? IF so, has anyone heard of these going bad?
I am not a hardware guru, but it seems it is not reading the startup files. So, I reinstalled the system using Archive my data and it still will not boot. I really need to save the data off this HD. It is under warranty.
