HT204323: If a flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac
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Jun 4, 2016 11:30 AM in response to stanley chenby OGELTHORPE,What are you trying to achieve? What is prompting you to boot into recovery?
Ciao.
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Jun 4, 2016 12:31 PM in response to stanley chenby BDAqua,Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive & clear caches.)
Any change?
Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key, what choices are shown as boot choices?
Oh, did you ever set a Firmware Password?
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Jun 4, 2016 1:23 PM in response to BDAquaby stanley chen,Hi
I dropped my laptop yesterday and I have been seeing blinking question mark inside a folder when I start my device
I tried command + r and it worked. However, I cannot click on repair disk after I chose disk utility -->first aid.
I also tried reinstallation, but there was no location found.
I think there might be something wrong with the hardware that forbids the access to start disk after I dropped it.
Is there a way to solve my problem or should I bring it to Apple Store?
Thank you.
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Jun 4, 2016 2:45 PM in response to stanley chenby BDAqua,It sounds like it needs to visit the Apple Store, but 1st try...
Have you done a PRAM reset, CMD+Option+p+r...
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
In fact, do 3 in a row, takes a bit of time.
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Jun 4, 2016 3:13 PM in response to stanley chenby OGELTHORPE,Your HDD may be dead. A visit to an Apple store can verify that one way or the other. The evaluation will be FREE.
Cuai.