Mac OS shows STOP sign at startup

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Mac OS shows STOP sign at startup

Hey there......well, my mac doesnt seem to work now, whenever i start it up, it stops at the screen where the apple comes up, and after a while a stop symbol comes up. Nothing can be done that i know of. But the thing is, im actually on the same machine right now, only im running windows.....now, i got some questions and hope they can be answered, these are:

Is all my data i had saved, music, photos, all files, doomed, or is there a way to get them back?

What can be done???

Thanks for the help. 😀

Macbook Pro 15 inch, duo core 2 2.33ghz

Posted on Mar 1, 2007 12:51 PM

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syntrak

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Mar 1, 2007 1:01 PM in response to Alfredtrek88

How big are the partitions for each of the operating systems ?

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syntrak

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Mar 1, 2007 1:06 PM in response to Alfredtrek88

Look here:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106805

This document can help when:

A "broken folder" or prohibitory sign appears during startup.
Note: The prohibitory sign replaces the "broken folder" in Mac OS X 10.2 or later.

A kernel panic occurs during startup.
A miscellaneous startup issue occurs.

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Alfredtrek88 Author

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Mar 1, 2007 1:07 PM in response to syntrak

Thanks, im checking out the link now. The windows partion is 32 gb, the original hd space was 120 and I had about 8 gb left on the mac partition.

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Mar 1, 2007 1:37 PM in response to Alfredtrek88

Hi Alfredtrek88;

With only 8 GB left free in the Mac partition, there is a good chance that you have managed to corrupt the files in that partition. I would suggest that you backup first. Then see if you can at least double the free space. Once you get that done then booting from the install media and repairing the disk with Disk Utility would be the next step.

Allan

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Alfredtrek88 Author

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Mar 1, 2007 2:17 PM in response to Allan Eckert

Actually it was 8 GB. Well, I couldnt back anything up and just tried booting it from the cd and repairing the disk with Disk Utility and right now im writing from Mac OS X! 😀 Im doing backups now on dvds, thanks for the help guys, apreciate it!

Ooooh, there was a small thing i wondered about tho, have anyone heard about an issue when you are burning and the audio goes all screwy if you are listenin to music or whatcin a video, stuttering and all? It happened with me only in Windows so far tho, not on the mac os, but i would think it should go fine burnin cds on windows, is it normal with windows on mbp or?

Anyhow, thanks again for the help!

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