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Restored Backup - still won't boot

Got the flashing folder of death.


Tried verifying, repairing the disk. No luck.


Restored from Time Machine. No luck.


Rebooted with Command-Option-P-R. No luck.


The drive as far as I can tell is working properly....


What is preventing OSX from booting this drive?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on May 6, 2013 12:40 PM

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May 6, 2013 3:19 PM in response to LiteWait

Reinstalled and it still won't boot off the hard drive. How can this be the install worked fine?


Even went as far as putting a bootable USB flash drive and it sees that.


I tried pressing the OPTION key on boot but it only sees the USB drive.


This is madness. How can OSX install on a drive BUT then fail to boot from it?


(I could understand if the drive was failing, but this makes no sense)

May 6, 2013 4:34 PM in response to LiteWait

The drive as far as I can tell is working properly....


How do you know the drive didn't fail? Sounds like it did.


if you boot from the Install DVD and go to Disk Utility from there, is the internal drive seen?


I understand the confusion. I don't know to what it would have reinstalled if the drive had failed.

Restored Backup - still won't boot

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