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Mac has folder with question mark when booting. Need help!

bobhays
By bobhays
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I have my friends macbook pro and when it boots it has a folder with a question mark on it. I searched a fix and found the apple support site. I booted into recovery mode and when to startup disk, there was nothing listed. So next I went to disk utility. There was a disk 0 wih OS X Base System partition. The problem is that partition is only 1.3GB and I can't repair the disk. I plugged the drive into my windows computer with a USB adapter and it recognized the 3 partition in the Windows Disk Manager.

I'm not really sure where to go from here. I don't know the year of the Macbook pro but it's back when they still had dvd drives and removable hard drives.

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The HDD might be busted. Have you run a health check on it? Seatools for Seagates and Samsungs, WD Lifeguard for WD drives. There are 3rd party tools like chrystaldiskinfo too but I wouldn't trust 3rd party readings as much. 

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5 minutes ago, Naeaes said:

The HDD might be busted. Have you run a health check on it? Seatools for Seagates and Samsungs, WD Lifeguard for WD drives. There are 3rd party tools like chrystaldiskinfo too but I wouldn't trust 3rd party readings as much. 

I don't have any other macs at home to test it with. When I plug it into windows I can see it in disk manager but thats it. The disk 0 is windows drive and disk 1 is the Mac drive. It shows me capacity and the partitions but nothing else.

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1 minute ago, bobhays said:

I don't have any other macs at home to test it with. When I plug it into windows I can see it in disk manager but thats it. The disk 0 is windows drive and disk 1 is the Mac drive. It shows me capacity and the partitions but nothing else.

:D Run it on Windows. The tests look at the physical and mechanical properties of the drive. They don't care what formatting you have on there.

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I booted into recovery mode and opened disk utility. It didn't recognize the hard drive in there. It only had disk0 the boot recovery. I thought the hard drive was broken so I replaced it with an ssd but it didn't recognize that either so I think it's a wire or motherboard issue

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