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We read a small brochure that came with the notebook, shut it off, then powered it up while simultaneously holding down the Power, Command and R buttons. It's a MacBook Air there is no hard drive. Data Rescue III is pretty good at this, although it can take a very long time. If you had to replace the drive, you could try installing Data Rescue III or a similar utility onto your new startup drive, then connect your old drive using any of the many available USB docking solutions (Amazon and have a good selection) and try recovering important data from your dead drive.
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If you still can't boot properly, it's time to put a new HD into your machine and restore from a backup (you DO have one, right?)-preferably a full one made with SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner. After the process is done, you "should" be able to boot into your regular volume. Boot into Recovery HD again, and select the "Restore from Time Machine" option (you DO have a Time Machine backup, right?). If you still can't boot (flashing question mark you mentioned), then the next step would be to again boot into Recovery HD and try reinstalling OS X (Internet connection is required). Then see if you can boot from the normal Macintosh HD or whatever your regular startup volume is named. Once in Recovery HD, launch Disk Utility and run the "Verify/Repair Disk" and "Repair Permissions" options. I prefer Option-R because it lets you see all boot volumes, whereas Command-R boots directly into Recovery HD. Reboot or startup while holding either Option-R or Command-R. To expand just a bit in case the OP doesn't already know (I'm sure Tom_N knows): to boot into the Recovery partition (assuming you're running OS X 10.8 or later and in fact did originally have a Recovery partition!):

If all else fails, you may have to take it to an Apple Store or repair facility.
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If you have an external USB hard drive with a bootable copy of Mac OS X on it (e.g., a backup that you created with a cloning program), you might try booting from it. Another way to recover is by reinstalling Mac OS X from the Internet, but as you found out, that only works if you can make a network connection. That only works if whatever trashed your boot volume didn't also trash the recovery partition. One way to recover is to use the recovery partition. This doesn't necessarily mean that the hardware is broken it may just be that the contents of the interna drive got corrupted or erased. Screen shots disabled while DVD player is running… - How do you get around the limitation when this message appears? A few options are available.A flashing folder with a question mark, at startup time, means that the machine cannot find a valid boot volume. ( 5 messages)Ĭomparing older mac speeds - A Web site lists a complete history of Apple hardware and specifications, leading one reader to note that browsing the Web on an older PowerBook is comparable to a newer MacBook Pro. IWork and iWeb Updated, Apple Restricts Release Notes - Apple’s lack of release notes is increasingly infuriating, especially for the reader who lost hours reinstalling Leopard after the latest iWork update. Yes, we think we’re superior compared to someone who would print a ridiculous article. “Mac Users Think They’re Superior” - Yes, it’s the title of an article in Advertising Age. What is a “Server Grade Hard Drive”? Apple touts its new Time Capsule device as having a “server grade hard drive,” but what does that mean exactly? ( 1 message)Įxternal disk - The low cost of hard drives these days makes it possible to toss an old, low-capacity drive and replace it with a new internal drive, rather than trying to boot from a small external one. Alsoft DiskWarrior - Does Drive Genius unseat long-time Mac drive campion DiskWarrior? ( 6 messages) Non-English unicode fonts in Safari - A custom Tibetan font is required to read a Web site, but the font isn’t one that ships with Mac OS X.

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