OS X :: IMac Could Not Find Its Start Up Disk
Oct 27, 2009
My IMac is about 1 year old. It is a 20 inch 2.4 intel iMac. It froze today the mouse wouldn't move or anything. My kids were messing around with it. So I just turned it off and back on. After a couple of minutes of gray screen a folder with a question mark flashes over and over again. So I got on my macbook to see what it meant, I found out that the iMac couldn't find its start up disk. So I went to apple support trouble shooting and it said start it up using the install disc which I did. It said go to start up utility and repair the disc. The start up disc doesn't show up, so they said if that happens reset the PRAM, which I did like 3 times, and nothing. They said if all these steps fail just reinstall using the installation disc. Which I did but when it said where would you like to install Mac OS X, you would normally see the Hard Drive Icon and it is gone, there is nothing there.
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Apr 13, 2012
I keep on getting notification pop up windows saying my startup disk is almost full.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 2007 model
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Jun 1, 2014
I am having boot up problems on my imac 27-inch. I pressed the power button and press and held the Option key, I chose the Recovery disk, but the Recovery disk did not start, instead I have the grey Apple logo and it keeps running but will not start.Â
The imac 27-inch was bought refurbished in late 2010. I also have imac apple care from 2010 never used. First time problem. On pressing the Option key during startup, Mach Hard disk and Recovery Disk 10.9 is displayed.
Choosing mac hard disk does not boot up the OS instead I get a big Zero sign with line through it or a big flash question mark sign. Choosing the Recovery Disk 10.9 does not boot up Disk Utility, instead I get the grey Apple logo.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), mac hard disk and Recovery 10.9disk
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Feb 16, 2012
I've owned this iMac for less then 20 hours Â
Mac OSX 10.7.3
21.5"
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5Â Â Â Â
4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ram
"Mid 2011"Â
It was purchased brand new. I used it for one hour yesterday, run the set up, install updates. thats all I have done with it. Today I awake to it presenting a loading bar of some sort under the Apple logo and Spinning wheel. I researched the bar, and found that it was a progress bar for a disk check, and since it doesnt complete (I let it do its thing) something must be wrong, However when i run disk utility, it can find now error in the disk. but my sound and video play pack does not work unless i restart the machine. this seems like an unessecary process. what are the possible causes?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Aug 24, 2010
I keep getting a pop up saying my start up disk is almost full, or that my iTunes library couldn't be saved, but I've still got a quarter of hard drive available on my new iMac. OmniDiskSweeper shows that most of the memory goes to my iTunes Media and Pictures/videos, but that shows just 61GB of hard drive used for Users. What could be using my hard drive space that doesn't show in OmniDiskSweeper?
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Apr 10, 2012
My iMac does not start up as usual. I now get a ' start up disk is full. You need to make space available on your start up disk by deleting files' message. Â I am able to key my log on password however I just get the purple galaxy screen with no desktop.Â
If I try to use the keyboard I get a tone when pressing the keys. Â
Has worked perfectly well up until I got this dusk full message. Â
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Sep 5, 2014
My start up disk is my hard drive.Â
Whenever I take the hard drive out my laptop just stops working and it's back to normal when I put the hard drive in, is there a way for me to use my laptop without having to physically have my start up disk (hard drive) plugged into my laptop?
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Aug 29, 2014
I have a Macbook Pro . The hard disk failed smart disk and my laptop does not start any more. Is it ok if I replace the HDD with CGET or WD hard disk rather than the apple hard disk. the pros and cons of a non apple HDD.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
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Feb 15, 2011
I've download a Seagate Diagnostics programme to check whether my external Seagate FreeAgent Desk is working properly or not. However, when I run the programme, it indicates that cannot find the disk.
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Oct 6, 2007
with my G5 I need to get a new hard drive since the old one died. to format the new hard drive do I need a start up disk or a recovery disk.
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PowerMac G5
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
Dual Core 2.0 2x 256 Ram
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Jun 21, 2012
computer won't start. tried unplugging and holding in start button. After about a half hour and unplugging a few times, finally got it going. Imac G5
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iMac, MacOS X (10.5)
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Feb 26, 2009
I don't know how this happened but my Skype program starts automatically on my machine and I don't want that. I looked in the program settings and I couldn't find any way to disable it from auto start.
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Jul 12, 2009
I was reinstalling a printer driver and my power cut off while it was installing.now the computer wont start and i get this message below... I read to use the install dvd but my CD drive is broke and wont take cds. I did manage to hook it up to my dads computer with target disk mode so i can access files. his computer is a windows though. i do have a copy of the Leopard install cd saved as a DMG on his computer and a 8gb flash to boot it but i cant format the flash drive to be mac extended journaled GUID from his computer.IS there a program to do this???I dont know what needs to be fixed or where i can get this acpi driver? can anyone help because i dont have any money to get this fix and i need my mac for college which im starting soon.This is the error message
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x004384FF): "unable to find driver for this platform: "ACPI".
"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.12.14/iokit/Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1407
(That is the first line. It goes on to say...)
Debugger called: <panic>
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
(then there are 7 lines that start with 0x2f5d3 followed by)
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Unknown
Mac OS version:
Not yet set
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.7.0: Tue Mar 31 22:52:17 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.12.14~1/RELEASE_I386
System uptime in nanoseconds: 180744654
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May 1, 2012
This already happened twice. I installed torrent downloader, downloaded a movie then turned off my macpro so I can continue the download the next day. However, every time I start my macpro, I can't find the torrent downloader anymore. Is is being deleted automatically my OS? I tried to search everywhere - apps, docs, downloads etc.
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MacBook Pro
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Apr 21, 2007
I keep getting this message and don't know where to go to handle it. No info from Apple in spotlight or read-me manual.
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Jul 9, 2008
I had the spinning beach ball today, nothing would force quit, so I shut down with the power button. When I tried to start up again, it got as far as the gray apple, but nothing else. I started up from the Tiger CD, tried to install and it got stuck at Destination Disk. I made it to disk utility, tried to verify or repair, then got this error:
Verifying volume "diskOs9"
Checking HFS Plus Volume
Invalid node structure
Invalid node structure
Catalog file entry not found for extent
The volume needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit.
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair.
Then a popup window: First Aid failed, Disk Utility stopped verifying "diskOs9" because the following error was encountered: The underlying task reported failure on exit. I am stuck. How do I proceed?
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Mar 9, 2010
I been having disk error with the 2TB disk in my new 27" imac The errors looks like this:Verifying volume ?Macintosh HD?Performing live verification.Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.Checking extents overflow file.Checking catalog file.Missing thread record (id = 1336149)Incorrect number of thread recordsChecking multi-linked files.Checking catalog hierarchy.Invalid volume directory count(It should be 197788 instead of 197789)Checking extended attributes file.Checking volume bitmap.Checking volume information.The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
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Jan 14, 2011
I ran SuperDuper last night and the backup failed with an unknown error. After, Spotlight didn't find files. I rebooted and at the login screen was given the error message 'backup disc full, delete some files' - problem is, OS X won't boot beyond the starfield screen, so there's no way of deleting files or running the system. I took the drive out and put it in a USB caddy on another machine and ran Disk Utility - it said repairs were needed, so I did this. However, putting it back into the MBP nothing has changed, it still won't boot and insists the disc is full - there is over 180GB free! (I can see this when I mount it on another machine.)
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Dec 13, 2007
I recently lost my G4 MDD 1.25 GHz tower to a power surge. I've replaced it with a G4 MDD dual 1 GHz. This is a dual boot machine. When booted up in 10.4.11 I can select the 9.2.2 disk but it will restart on 10.4.11 - Selecting Target Mode, it will boot on 10.4.11. The only way to boot 9.2.2 is with an Option start. When in 9.2.2 and using the Start up Disk control panel and choosing 9.2.2 - it boots up from the 10.4.11 disk. Additionally, when a Tiger DVD is inserted and the Install and Restart are clicked - it boots up the 10.4.11 disk.
I installed 10.4.11 and 9.2.2 on two partitions of another hard drive - same results. I Reset-all in Open Firmware. Pressed the PMU reset. I'm out of ideas.
I really hope I'm not the only one to experience this.
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May 24, 2009
I'm running 10.5.7 and Boot camp - is there any way to force my Mac to always ask which disk to start up without always having to hold the option key?
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Oct 23, 2009
Yesterday I erase the windows partition on my macbook pro through bootcamp.
Then I restart my mac and it tell me "no bootable device ...". If I press alt button during the starting, I can see my mac partition, but when I choose it, it's impossible to access.
Unfortunately my Leopard install disk doesn't work anymore (really really strange, it's perfect without any scratch) and I can only use a old tiger disk. So I can see that it's no more present any startup disk!!! Bootcamp deleted my mac startup disck.
Through the terminal I can see that alls my data are presents!
Suggestions? I guess the only way to restore my mac it's to buy snow leopard and re-install the system saving the data.
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Oct 30, 2009
We have three Power Mac G4's here at our office which have been salvaged for parts in other machines for some time now. We decided to piece together a G4 to play a video in our lobby during office hours. One that would shut down and boot up at required times and automatically play the video file.
I got the pieces working in a G4, and I then formatted and did a clean install of Tiger on a spare working HD we had laying around. After the installation, I ran Software Update and got every last update installed and ready to go. The video plays fine, etc.
Now the weird part:
Every time I shut down, when I boot back up, I get an blinking OS9-style blue folder-? in the middle of the screen.
After trying a few times, I decided to attempt to re-install Tiger. I obviously couldn't eject the DVD drive without being in the OS, so I did what any Apple guy would do, and held down the mouse while booting to force the drive to eject.
Then I got the good ole' gray and white Tiger boot up screen. Tiger loaded quickly and everything was just fine.
I doubled checked the Startup Disk settings, and everything was fine there.
I checked the time/date and made sure it wasn't the Logic Board battery failing to hold data, however the time/date were correct.
Here is a video of the situation to drive home the point:
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What... oh what... is going on?
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Feb 10, 2010
My system drive recently failed and so I installed on a another drive in my mac pro. I've taken the other (failed) drive out. My current system drive which works great so far when my computer is booted up and running, is not found automatically during start up. For example, if I restart the computer it will either show me a blank screen forever, sometimes a missing folder, sometimes nothing. But if I hold option during start up, sure enough the system drive will show up and I can go on my way with no problems.
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Dec 27, 2009
At work I am using a Mac os 10.3.9 and I have been getting a message telling me that the start up disk is full. Usually when I delete messages from the mailbox it gives me most of my memory back, but this time it didn't. I called my server and they deleted the messages from there, but that didn't do anything either. I have about 88 MB in my memory. Does anyone know what I can do to gain the memory back? I have went and repaired permissions, but that didn't do anything for it. I am not very computer literate and right now I am at home and do not have access to the computer.
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Feb 27, 2012
I am trying to update my system and I am being told that my start up disk is full.Can any one tell me how to delete items off the start up disk?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Mar 8, 2012
How do I clean up my start up disk?
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MacBook
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Mar 13, 2012
Where do I find my start up disk. And how do I delete unnecessary items?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 23, 2012
I keep getting a message when I plug my iphone in to the imac to say can not complete because start up disk is full?
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Mac OS X, Mac OS X (10.4.10)
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May 16, 2012
Okay, so my iMac has been slowing down recently and I have gotten the pop-up saying the start up disk is full. When I got this, I went through and deleted a lot of things and moved things onto my external hard-drive. I can't remember how much space it got me, but it only lasted a few days. The same pop-up came up and I was confused because I hadn't really downloaded anything or done anything to use that space. Okay, so I delete more stuff. This second time I deleted enough (my whole downloads folder I forgot about) to get 15GB of space back. That was just a few days ago. Today, I got the same pop-up and had only 1GB of space left. I haven't downloaded ANYTHING especially 14GB worth at least for me to run out of space again.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Jun 16, 2012
how do I make a start-up disk
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
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