My Mac locked up yesterday so I had to restard with ctr-command and power button. Now my mac would only reboot into a gray screen, followed by a black screen that said boot-mgr is missing. I put in my windows disk and it took an hour and repaired that problem but now my mac will only go into windows and doesnt even know a Mac HD exits. I tried booting from external HD, but it still doesnt recognize my hdd.
Other things you may want to know:
1) ##I already reset PRAM, NVRAM, SMC....
2) I am running standard Leopard mid 2009 macbook pro. I dont have my leopard install disk, but the guy from authorized service desk who didnt have one either was saying I might need to buy the 130 dollar full copy of snow leopard but he wasnt sure either. This would be because he thinks my HDD is completely erased and the upgrade version of Snow Leopard wouldnt do anything. Would this be true??
3) I put in a friends copy of snow leopard to see if it would work and it booted up normally but then of course couldnt install it becuase its not authorized.
4) I hope this was clear and of course any help is greatly appreciated.
Other things you may want to know:
1) ##I already reset PRAM, NVRAM, SMC....
2) I am running standard Leopard mid 2009 macbook pro. I dont have my leopard install disk, but the guy from authorized service desk who didnt have one either was saying I might need to buy the 130 dollar full copy of snow leopard but he wasnt sure either. This would be because he thinks my HDD is completely erased and the upgrade version of Snow Leopard wouldnt do anything. Would this be true??
3) I put in a friends copy of snow leopard to see if it would work and it booted up normally but then of course couldnt install it becuase its not authorized.
4) I hope this was clear and of course any help is greatly appreciated.