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Apple Boot Error - Any Ideas?!

daveryder on March 7, 2009

ooooh . hosed

CBGFilms on March 7, 2009

Check there is no disk, or USB stick, or External HDD plugged in.

lordneverdie on March 6, 2009

looks like an Apple boot error. ;

gsmorrison on March 6, 2009

Dude. Shoulda bought a Dell.

gordon1fan on March 6, 2009

Can't say anything about PC crashing. Apply does the same thing or worse.

DannyMinick on March 6, 2009

I would frolick to the nearest apple store.

photogeis on March 6, 2009

pretty much you will prob' need to reinstall. But if you have an external drive enclosure you can probably get to any files not backed up. But you would never NOT back up right? There just appears to be not boot volume. Drive might be fine just no files t

creamers on March 6, 2009

Reboot holding down option to choose adrive do that a time or 2 its fixed. Bassicly it thinks it dosnt have a drive to boot to.

bstrong1218 on March 6, 2009

...m on it. This does not mean it can't be fixed, but you may have anything from a corrupted file to a virus. This might be from Microsoft stuff if you're using Boot Camp.

bstrong1218 on March 6, 2009

Maybe try cmd+v for verbose. That might help diagnose what the issue is. From what I know, the grey screen you are seeing pretty much means that your Mac cannot find a startup drive, which by the sound of it, may mean that your drive has some major proble

jntkwx on March 6, 2009

Try this, Chris: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1892

ahmedbaig05 on March 6, 2009

reinstall o or hd corrupted. is that ur macbookpro 17 from the stream? mmm well ive never has that. And im on a Vista PC!

photogeis on March 6, 2009

Was this something that suddenly happened or during an install?

philipodegard on March 6, 2009

This usually means the system could not load boot.efi, or some other issue. Did you try restarting and holding down the "Alt" key? Happened to me once, had to hard reset and it came back to life within 30 seconds.

mightykenny on March 6, 2009

BootROM issue? If it's a PPC Mac, the hard drive partition may be in GUID scheme.

sman591 on March 6, 2009

Last time that happened, It was on mac OS 9 and meant that the startup disk was corrupted.

macros617 on March 6, 2009

its looking very Vista'ish

teq on March 6, 2009

looks like it won't boot

Alex_spr on March 6, 2009

Try booting off the DVD and see if the HD is there. That happened to my cousin and it was that the HD was completely shot. Hope it's not the case with yours.