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Hi,
I have a 3 years old MacBook 13.3" white C2D 2.0GHz, 1GB RAM...while i was deleting some items from my flash drive the system got stuck with the spinning beach ball i waited for a while and then my friend pulled the power cord (my battery has died so im using it on power supply for 3-4 days).
When I restarted my Mac i heard the start up gong and then nothing!!!...there was only a white screen for a long time...i tried to boot up a couple of times but nothing happened so i left the MacBook in the same state for a while hoping it would start up. After 4-5 mins I saw flashing folder with a question mark inside...it just kept on flashing for a while and nothing happened so I googled some solution for this. Apparently i found some remedies:
1. after the flashing icon appears wait for a while and the system should start up normally then simply change the startup disk to Macintosh HD....well that didnt work, so i tried another one
2. try selecting the hard drive from startup manager by pressing Option/Alt key...when i did that hard disk didnt appear, instead i could see my mouse pointer but nothing else!!
3. they also suggested that if that didnt work then i should startup from the MacOSX restore DVD...since i have upgraded my MacBook to Mac OS10.6.2 recently and when i purchased my MacBook it came with Tiger preinstalled and i still have the Tiger DVDs...but however i tried doing that aswell but nothing happened, I tried to hold Option key while booting to select the DVD manually, the DVD did appeared but when i clicked on it, nothing happened, i even tried to hold the C key while booting with the DVD inside and nothing happened
4. As a last resort I tried to rest the PRAM by holding Option+Command+P+R keys together while booting...after the next boot the flashing folder icon appeared again, I tried this several times but same results .
Is there any possible solution to this problem?...or is my macbook BRICKED??...and how come this suddenly happened?
ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRICIATED!!!
THANKS!!!!!!!
I have a 3 years old MacBook 13.3" white C2D 2.0GHz, 1GB RAM...while i was deleting some items from my flash drive the system got stuck with the spinning beach ball i waited for a while and then my friend pulled the power cord (my battery has died so im using it on power supply for 3-4 days).
When I restarted my Mac i heard the start up gong and then nothing!!!...there was only a white screen for a long time...i tried to boot up a couple of times but nothing happened so i left the MacBook in the same state for a while hoping it would start up. After 4-5 mins I saw flashing folder with a question mark inside...it just kept on flashing for a while and nothing happened so I googled some solution for this. Apparently i found some remedies:
1. after the flashing icon appears wait for a while and the system should start up normally then simply change the startup disk to Macintosh HD....well that didnt work, so i tried another one
2. try selecting the hard drive from startup manager by pressing Option/Alt key...when i did that hard disk didnt appear, instead i could see my mouse pointer but nothing else!!
3. they also suggested that if that didnt work then i should startup from the MacOSX restore DVD...since i have upgraded my MacBook to Mac OS10.6.2 recently and when i purchased my MacBook it came with Tiger preinstalled and i still have the Tiger DVDs...but however i tried doing that aswell but nothing happened, I tried to hold Option key while booting to select the DVD manually, the DVD did appeared but when i clicked on it, nothing happened, i even tried to hold the C key while booting with the DVD inside and nothing happened
4. As a last resort I tried to rest the PRAM by holding Option+Command+P+R keys together while booting...after the next boot the flashing folder icon appeared again, I tried this several times but same results .
Is there any possible solution to this problem?...or is my macbook BRICKED??...and how come this suddenly happened?
ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRICIATED!!!
THANKS!!!!!!!