hello..i am getting a screen when i turn my laptop on theta says OSX utilities....restore, reinstall osx or disk utility....what does this mean

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Hello.. I am getting a screen when i turn my laptop on startup says OSX utilities....restore, reinstall osx or disk utility....what does this mean?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on May 2, 2014 4:34 AM

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Hi, that sounds like it's booting from a Restore partition, but that is only for 10.7 & up, you list 10.6.8 though.

Anyway, hold alt key at bootup, what boot choices are shown?

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