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PLEASE HELP - startup disk, where's my hard drive??
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<blockquote data-quote="jh87" data-source="post: 1314169" data-attributes="member: 20550"><p>I'd been trying to upgrade from tiger 10.4.11 to snow leopard, had install issues, looked around on the web for help, and one of the suggestions was to partition and zero out the hd. So I did that and the install still failed with the same message that not all the files could be installed. Whatever.</p><p></p><p>ANYWAY, the big problem now is that I don't know what to do. Previously, after trying several times to install, then getting fed up with it, I'd select my os from the startup disk options, and that would just reboot my computer normally. NOW, that's no longer an option - if I got to utilities -> startup disk, the only options that appear are the SL install disk and network startup. When I've tried rebooting my macbook while holding down the trackbad to eject the disk, then I just get a gray screen with a blinking folder symbol and question mark. </p><p></p><p>Thankfully, I copied everything to my external, but I can't do anything with it now if I can't even get to my actual hd!</p><p></p><p>I have a 15" macbook pro from Aug 2006. I don't know what to do! PLEASE HELP!!! I'm going crazy/freaking out. (Also, sorry if I used the wrong wording for certain things...please let me know I was unclear as to what I'm referring to.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jh87, post: 1314169, member: 20550"] I'd been trying to upgrade from tiger 10.4.11 to snow leopard, had install issues, looked around on the web for help, and one of the suggestions was to partition and zero out the hd. So I did that and the install still failed with the same message that not all the files could be installed. Whatever. ANYWAY, the big problem now is that I don't know what to do. Previously, after trying several times to install, then getting fed up with it, I'd select my os from the startup disk options, and that would just reboot my computer normally. NOW, that's no longer an option - if I got to utilities -> startup disk, the only options that appear are the SL install disk and network startup. When I've tried rebooting my macbook while holding down the trackbad to eject the disk, then I just get a gray screen with a blinking folder symbol and question mark. Thankfully, I copied everything to my external, but I can't do anything with it now if I can't even get to my actual hd! I have a 15" macbook pro from Aug 2006. I don't know what to do! PLEASE HELP!!! I'm going crazy/freaking out. (Also, sorry if I used the wrong wording for certain things...please let me know I was unclear as to what I'm referring to.) [/QUOTE]
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