After archive and install macbook won´t boot

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After archive and install macbook won´t boot

Hi everyone! This is the first time I´ve posted a question here, so please be patient. I have a 2007 macbook white with 10.5 mac os leopard. Lately a was having trouble with low free space left so I decided to clean some unused files. Accidentally I erased some (I don´t know which ones) that I shouldn´t have from the libraries folder. Since I couldn´t start my mac, I decided to do a "archive and install" with the install disks. Everything wen´t fine and my mac came back to life, BUT now a had even fewer space left due to these new second mac osx installation. Since I needed to retrieve some space I selected the files from the just made "previous system folder" and the deleted it. I finally got some free space left and thought it had gone ok UNTIL I restarted the mac and got a flashing question mark. Now I can´t solve it with any of the key startup combinations, and when I insert the install disks the disk utility doesn´t find my HD. What has happened??!! I´ve got a big hunch that I´m screwed, what do you think?? Thank you all

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Apr 9, 2013 7:38 AM

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Novae12 Author

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Apr 9, 2013 8:19 AM in response to Novae12

Sorry for my grammar, I just read my own question and so I wrote it in a confusing way. Let me try it again. After I made an "archive and install" I selected files I wanted from the newly made Previous System Folder. Then I sent that folder to trash and emptied it to finally try and gain back some space.It seemed as if it had worked, since now I had 20 GB of free space, but then I restarted the mac and that was when I got the flashing question mark. I tried again to do an "archive and install" but now the disk utility can´t find my hard drive.

I hope that was clearer. Thank you!

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Klaus1

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Apr 9, 2013 9:42 AM in response to Novae12

Once you were sure everything worked you should have deleted the (now redundant) Previous System Folder.

How to Archive & Install:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1710

and this also:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2196?viewlocale=en_US

BUT: Don't install older versions of Mac OS than what came with your computer:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2186?viewlocale=en_US

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Novae12 Author

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Apr 9, 2013 10:05 AM in response to Klaus1

Thanks Klaus1. When I located the files I wanted from previous folder I followed the instructions that actually you have linked. Then I deleted the folder and it was when it all happened.

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