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When I boot up my MacBook pro, it really quickly shows a folder with a question mark. It just started today. Anyone know what it means?
 
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Back to my old 2.2GHz C2D MB after selling my MBP and wondering what my next Mac will be :)
Have a read through this
 
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It works fine. There are no problems at all. It just quickly shows it, then continues to boot up. Just curious on as to what it meant. I dont think that it is anything serious like the beginning of that article.
 
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Well, just keep a constant backup, best off with CCC or SuperDuper, so that way, if your hard drive fails that you have a bootable external copy of your system.
I would, just to check, boot off your install disc, and verify disk in disk utilities, and if errors come up, repair disk.
 

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Try this. Open System Preferences and click on Startup Disk. Click on the OSX hard drive and click on Reboot. Let us know if that ? goes away after that.
 
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I figured it out. It was because I had a boot camp partition set up before I had windows on it. I think it was trying to boot that partition with nothing on it, after putting on windows, it went away, also I set my OS X partition back to the default for startup and it is gone. Also, today I put in a new HDD. 500GB 7200rpm hitachi travel star I think.
 

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