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MacBook Pro won't boot (question mark folder) after blue screen on windows bootcamp

Hi,


So, I was on windows, using bootcamp, and I was creating partitions on a pen drive with it, and then it asks me that it needs to restart to apply changes.

But then, while restarting, a blue screen occurred (**** windows).... And I forced the shutdown pressing the power key.


Then, I simply turned the MacBook on, trying to boot on my snow leopard and I got a flashing folder with a question mark on it.

Now I can't access any partitions on it, if I press option key on startup I get a blank window!


I tried to reset PRAM, repair the MacOs partition using the snow leopard DVD (it shows up fine, along with windows partition and EFI partition), and I still don't get my startup disk showing up...


How can I fix this? I can't loose my files and I need to work with it :/

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Snow Leopard with windows7 bootcamp

Posted on Feb 9, 2012 8:43 AM

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Posted on Feb 9, 2012 9:22 AM

I just fixed it!


For future reference, what I did was:

- Booting from OSX DVD, go to disk utility

- Erase windows partition (yap, I lost it...)

- Do a "repair disk" on every partition of my hard drive

- Restart


And it just worked ;)

Thankfully I had no important files on my windows partition, now I will just reinstall it.

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Feb 9, 2012 9:22 AM in response to DManel

I just fixed it!


For future reference, what I did was:

- Booting from OSX DVD, go to disk utility

- Erase windows partition (yap, I lost it...)

- Do a "repair disk" on every partition of my hard drive

- Restart


And it just worked ;)

Thankfully I had no important files on my windows partition, now I will just reinstall it.

MacBook Pro won't boot (question mark folder) after blue screen on windows bootcamp

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