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Mac Pro 2007 No Boot

ThePCRunners
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Hello, I've got a Mac Pro 2007 edition, when I try to turn it on it rings the Apple startup sound and shows a white screen, after a minute it shows a folder with question mark in the middle flashing, when I try to access Disk Utilities pressing Options on startup it boots into a gray screen with the curser enabled, but shows nothing besides that, anyone knows what can I do?

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Sounds like the hard drive is bad. The flashing folder icon indicates that a startup volume can't be found. It's an easy replacement, and the computer uses standard 3.5" SATA drives. 

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6 minutes ago, ProjectBox153 said:

Sounds like the hard drive is bad. The flashing folder icon indicates that a startup volume can't be found. It's an easy replacement, and the computer uses standard 3.5" SATA drives. 

I see.. I'll try hooking the old drive to another computer, maybe I'd be able to save the data and the startup files so I won't need to reinstall the OS

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2 minutes ago, ThePCRunners said:

I see.. I'll try hooking the old drive to another computer, maybe I'd be able to save the data and the startup files so I won't need to reinstall the OS

This has a very slim chance of working.

If the Mac can't boot to it, the drive is probably toast.

It's not too hard to install OS X to a blank drive though - just make a bootable USB with another Mac, boot to that, and proceed with the install.

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2 minutes ago, ThePCRunners said:

I see.. I'll try hooking the old drive to another computer, maybe I'd be able to save the data and the startup files so I won't need to reinstall the OS

I severly doubt you'll be able to salvage the OS. It (As far as I know) doesn't work like that. You may be able to get your files but the OS is cooked. Thats assuming the drive will even cooperate and isn't DEAD.

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26 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

This has a very slim chance of working.

If the Mac can't boot to it, the drive is probably toast.

It's not too hard to install OS X to a blank drive though - just make a bootable USB with another Mac, boot to that, and proceed with the install.

Sadly I don't own another Mac

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