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Updating to High Sierra interrupted to a "flashing ? folder" when booting

Hi everyone, I got a problem when updating my operating system from Sierra to High Sierra.


I have a mid-2014 version MBP retina (A1502) running the last version of macOS Sierra, but last night I run into a weird problem when updating it to macOS High Sierra. I let it download the files and restart to do the installation for hours. When I came back, I found a folder with a question mark blinking on the screen. Something was wrong, it went too high. Following was what did:


1. I forced shut down and restarted it.

2. Hold the "option" key (because holding command+c give me the same ? folder flashing), and the system let me choose a wifi network to "internet recovery", see the following beautiful picture:

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3. After that I was able to see:

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4. I tried to repair my disk. Click the  on the top left. There was an option called "Startup Disk". But I cannot found the start-up disk to repair, or to re-install even an older maverick OS.

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What is wrong with my mac, the hard disk is physically permanently but strangely damaged? Is there any possible solutions to try to save it?


Thanks everyone.

OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Nov 14, 2017 10:42 PM

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Updating to High Sierra interrupted to a "flashing ? folder" when booting

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