HT204323: If a flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac
Learn about If a flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac
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Jun 25, 2015 11:47 PM in response to Teddygraham731by SkFire,That's mean that something wrong with your Harddrive, try to boot with a "R" button holding on.
And then try to choose the HardDrive with OS X.
Then if it will help - go to System Preferences and there choose - Startup Disk, there choose your Hard Drive.
It must help.
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Jun 26, 2015 12:02 AM in response to SkFireby Teddygraham731,Nothing happens when I hold down the R key.
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Jun 26, 2015 12:10 AM in response to Teddygraham731by SkFire,Try to hold down Option ⌥ instead of R
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Jun 26, 2015 12:16 AM in response to SkFireby Teddygraham731,That worked! But I'm still not sure how to get to System Preferences. I've gone through all of the options that are given, but none work since I don't have the installation disk anymore.
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Jun 26, 2015 12:30 AM in response to SkFireby Teddygraham731,When I click the Apple button, there are only three options that drop down. Startup Disk, Restart, and Shut Down
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Jun 26, 2015 12:32 AM in response to Teddygraham731by SkFire,It's looks like you are in recovery mode.
Choose the Startup Disk, and describe what do you see?
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Jun 26, 2015 12:33 AM in response to SkFireby Teddygraham731,When I choose the Startup Disk, a new window pops up that says: Select the system you want to use to start up your computer. However, no options are listed.
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Jun 26, 2015 12:35 AM in response to Teddygraham731by SkFire,This is the problem of Hard Drive.
Try to reboot in recovery mode Command(cmd) + R
There choose Disk Utility
If your Hard Drive is listed choose it, and choose Repair Disk, not repair Permissions
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Jun 26, 2015 12:41 AM in response to SkFireby Teddygraham731,I actually tried that already, but the only option I have is the Mac OS X Base System and even for that the only option available is Verify Disk. Once I click that, it says: The volume Mac OS X Base System appears to be okay. The Repair Disk is not an option. When I hover over it, it says: Not available because the selected disk contains your home directory and can't be unmounted.
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Jun 26, 2015 12:43 AM in response to Teddygraham731by SkFire,Okay, then instead of Recovery mode Command + R go to Single User Mode Command + S
And type in fsck -fy
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