OS 10.5 - Macbook Pro wont start up

robbiebass89 · robbiebass89 #1 (**permalink**)

09-02-2009, 10:49 PM

I have a Macbook Pro with OSX 10.5 installed on it. Long story short I set up the mac to boot using the cd drive, restarted it and now it wont boot with the cd. How do I get my Macbook Pro to boot using the harddisk instead of the cd drive? I have looked at a couple of sites and they said to hold down shift to go into safemode, and to hold down "D" to force it to boot with the hard disk but neither of those worked. If I turn it off and on it still trys to boot with the CD drive. My mac was working perfectly and hour ago and now it wont start up...please help.

leopard-user1 · leopard-user1 #2 (**permalink**)

09-03-2009, 09:42 AM

I seem to remember that holding "X" while booting forces a startup in OS X. Try that.

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Member Since: Jan 27, 2009 Location: New York, NY Posts: 531 Mac Specs: 17" MacBook Pro, 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, not unibody	09-03-2009, 09:42 AM I seem to remember that holding "X" while booting forces a startup in OS X. Try that. (from scienceteecher.com) 17" MacBook Pro, OSX 10.6.2 Snow Leopard
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robbiebass89 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Sep 02, 2009 Posts: 1	09-02-2009, 10:49 PM I have a Macbook Pro with OSX 10.5 installed on it. Long story short I set up the mac to boot using the cd drive, restarted it and now it wont boot with the cd. How do I get my Macbook Pro to boot using the harddisk instead of the cd drive? I have looked at a couple of sites and they said to hold down shift to go into safemode, and to hold down "D" to force it to boot with the hard disk but neither of those worked. If I turn it off and on it still trys to boot with the CD drive. My mac was working perfectly and hour ago and now it wont start up...please help.
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