Question mark?

[rfomlover]

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?

 

[6string]

Have a read through this

 

[rfomlover]

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.

 

[6string]

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.

 

[dtravis7]

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.

 

[rfomlover]

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.