White unibody 2009

Click here and follow the instructions. If you reach the third set of steps, insert a Mac OS X install disk.

There isn't a recovery partition or system on 2009 or earlier Macs without having installed 10.7 or newer onto them, and it would have shown up when you pressed Option. If you did have it installed, the computer's internal drive appears to be dead or not properly connected.

TheLittles: That isn't the correct article for the issue involved.

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Starbizy Said:

"White unibody 2009: I’m having a question mark folder keep coming up I can’t start up my laptop and the command + r is not working to fix it no keys is working just option is working and it just brings out the cursor. Any deals"

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Go Here: If your Mac Starts Up to an Apple Logo or Progress Bar - Apple Support

No Success?...

Four More Things to Try:

A. Mount the Hard Drive in Disk Utility:

While booted into Recovery Mode [Hold Down: command + R keys upon boot], go to Disk Utility> tap the Hard Drive, then tap the Mount button. See if you can then install it. If it is already mounted, then unmount it and then remount it. See where you can go from there.

B. Seeing your Your Hard Drive is Failing:

Run First Aid and see if things are fixed.

1. Boot: into Recovery Mode (Hold Down: [command + R] upon boot)
2. Select: Disk Utility
3. Select: the Volume
4. Click: First Aid button

C. Reset your SMC and your NVRAM:

Sometimes changes are made to the system and then settings (i.e. for Wi-Fi) become corrupted, in the meanwhile. So, reset both on your Mac. See where it goes from there. It’s worth a go.

• How to reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support
• Reset NVRAM or PRAM on your Mac - Apple Support

D. Try Safe Mode:

In Safe Mode, login items do not run, and corrupt system files(i.e. caches) are intentionally reset as a way to fix issues

1. Boot: in to Safe Mode: [Hold Down: shift key upon boot].
2. Log in: as same user
3. Wait: 30 seconds
4. Restart; your Mac
5. Log in: as same user