I think I erased my OS and question mark flashing now appears

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• MacBook Pro will not initialize. Question Mark flashing folder

  -Macbook Pro 13 "Unibody model 2009

  Hi guys,.

  I have been a frequent visitor to the community of support here, but I'm a poster for the first time, so please forgive any lack of post I suffer from the label. I saw this problem here much and seem me to always see the same advice to fix, but I have never seen anyone who treat the same symptoms I had with my camera.

  My question all started when I tried to save something for the reader, and he said to me "you are not allowed to save this destination" (something to that effect). Then it progressed to a question on my Macbook to spontaneous freezing. It would freeze just constantly and I always have to force offshore. When I would try to start the machine up, it's always 50-50 chance that it should start successfully, often welcomed by the famous question mark flashing folder. I constantly by visiting an Apple store for the last year and a half on this topic and after countless visits, they insist that there is no problem that they can find. They always say down to "permission error", problems of BONE that have been resolved by resettlement and a faulty hard drive. I've dealt with them during this period and and still have this machine properly repaired on any occasion. The problem persists always just after I take the machine home and start right away, its still there.

  As time went on this issue, I noticed that the machine would often freezing when moved, for example moved a table at my knees etc. This has some time until that I have raised to clean the table under one day and then tried to do turn on and nothing. The machine refused to start, only to give me the question mark flashing folder. I tried to boot into recovery mode by using CMD - R and tried to reinstall the OSX, I read that it is a common solution, but whenever I start recovery mode "Macintosh HD" is not where. So I can't even try a reinstall of OSX.

  A man IT in my former work place had examined this issue before on another machine, and he said he had replaced the cable of HDD of the machines as the previous was damaged. When toggled, he said that the machine was working fine. It would be logical, as if the cable is already damaged and loose, I'm sure that the movement might just disconnect. I raise this issue because it is of NEVER once offered all the time, I in dealing with this issue and on further investigation in the apple forums and this seems to be a very common problem.

  

  This appeared on a boot up once and never since.

  

  And that's what I see at every boot up to now.

  I'm sorry to bombard all the world with so much information on this subject, but my frustration is quickly turning into madness on this issue, which have no one at Apple after countless visits being able to fix the problem. As it is the main culprit for me, the HARD disk cable, but I would not assume know better that some of you have known many more people.

  Any information or help that guys could pass my way would be greatly appreciated I was apparently no help from Apple repair personnel. If you have read and thought about all this I applaud you and owe you a drink at the mercy.

  James

  MacBook Pro

  Hi Yogi Wynne:

  I agree with your friend IT. Looks like the SATA hard drive cable has problems.

  The inside of your computer is not as smooth on the outside and rubs it hard against the SATA cable and can cause one of the traces in the short cable is causing hard drive problems.

  Here's where you can get a replacement cable, they are very fragile. https://www.iFixit.com/store/Mac/MacBook-Pro-13-inch-unibody-mid-2009-mid-2010-H ard-car-Cable/IF163-013-1

  Here's a video that shows what could happen. https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Amg5w0rlwDo

  I might change the SATA cable and see if the problem persists.

• Cannot access the internet. Have a bunch of yellow exclamation and question marks on Net work adapters and other drivers__

  Cannot set up internet access. Have yellow question mark points of network adapters and other devices (other drivers)

  Hello

  Maybe this can help, http://www.ezlan.net/faq.html#ghost

  Jack-MVP Windows Networking. WWW.EZLAN.NET

• Failure of keyboard with apostrophe and question marks, etc.

  apostrophe resembles e.-c question mark e. E, hooks quotes ^ C, etc.

  Usually held on the left ctrl + shift will reset the problem, but this does not work, no more to restart the computer.

  It's a sticky key problem, but can't do it reset.

  It does not resemble a sticky key problem. It seems more likely that your keyboard can be set up for the wrong language. Reach
  Panel-> region and language , then the keyboard & language tab. Now click on theChange keyboards button then the General tab. Verify that the correct default for your keyboard language is set.

  All the answers and suggestions are provided by an enthusiastic amateur and are therefore no explicit or implicit guarantee. Basically, you use my suggestions at your own risk.

• Japanese poster in the form of strange symbols and question marks

  Can someone explain to me what's not here? I'm trying to run a Setup program for a game that is in Japanese but... the Japanese is replaced by question marks and other symbols of weird points...
  I have screenshots

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  [IMG] http://i.imgur.com/Rypbk.png [line]

  Installation program in the taskbar:
  [IMG] http://i.imgur.com/JZkEi.png [line]

  I looked on google and all I saw was how do I change my language of Windows, all I want to do is get these displays correctly.
  And I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit

  HI, because you have not installed Japanese language for your windows, so the text are corrupt, may not display correctly.

  Solution:
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  2. Install it and then restart.
  3. OK, the problem is resolved.

  Hope that helps. :)
  sonyanda
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• Question mark flashing at startup

  Spring 2011 MBP with EL Capitan.  Thus, used my MBP last night and he started beachballing and force apps to quit smoking, I started but performance has not improved and the beachballing continued.  Was not yet able to click on the Apple icon to restart.  So, off the power by using the power button to restart as I did several times.  Reverse and get the screen gray with the folder icon and flashing question mark.  Completely bewildered, because I have never seen it before.  Restart again trying to reset the LANDAU thought that might have some effect, nothing will do. So, do a quick search on the old smartphone and find out how to get into recovery mode.  Go to the utility disk and look for my HARD drive, but he's not here.  Only disk 0 and then below Base of OS X system, something like that, don't remember what he said exactly.  Yes, I knocked at the realization that my HARD drive is erased, but I wonder if it is indeed cleared or if some kind of virus or something could have caused this and that, somewhere, my HARD drive is still intact.  I know it's probably a long shot and wishful thinking, but I'm exploring all the possibilities before you restore from my backup.  I have not saved in a few months, so I really hope this is the case, because I've probably lost some important stuff...

  Any help would be appreciated...

  Thank you!!

  If a flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac

• iMac G3 tray charger stuck on the gray screen with question mark flashing folder

  I recently bought an iMac G3 (charger tray, 333 MHz, M4984) and when I try to boot from an OS installation disc 10.3, there will remain only blocked on the gray screen with folder flashing with the question mark. Not only it does not maintain the keys C or Option, but it will not start up any combination of keys, such as resetting the PRAM or the NVRAM. It just starts and stays on the screen with the flashing folder does nothing. It CAN read the keyboard, because I can turn on the computer with the keyboard, it just won't start to the top of any disk or any combination of keys. Any ideas on what could be the problem? I just replaced the hard drive, but it was the same before I replaced the hard drive as well. In addition, the iMac had apparently OS 8.6 installed on it when it came, and I think I need to move to OS 9 and do a firmware update before you install OS X (correct me if I'm wrong), but I can not do because the iMac does start not in general of any combination of keys. Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated.

  I recently bought an iMac G3 (charger tray, 333 MHz, M4984) and when I try to boot from an OS installation disc 10.3, there will remain only blocked on the gray screen with folder flashing with the question mark.

  Valid operation system not found.

  Not only it primer not leave now pressed the C or

  Place the cd in the drive.  power off.  Hold c power key on & while in the startup is underway.
  

  Keys options,

  key option is not supported on tray loading imac g3 333

  In addition, the iMac had apparently OS 8.6 installed on it when it came, and I think I need to move to OS 9 and do a firmware update before you install OS X (correct me if I'm wrong), but I can not do because the iMac does start not in general of any combination of keys. Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated.

  It took charger slot, but I think that optional for the bin.  I think that you can upgrade the firmware with 8.6 for trays.

  You may need to reset the PRAM and NVRAM and Mac's Open Firmware. Stop the Mac, then it turns on and before the screen lights up, quickly down the command, Option, P, and R keys, until the Mac rang twice more after the power to chime.

  Then, before that lights up the screen, hold down the command-Option-O-F until the Open Firmware appears. Then enter these lines, and then press return after each of them:

  Reset-nvram

  Configure default

  Reset-all

  "The reset-all command should restart your Mac. If so, you have successfully reset the Open Firmware settings. »

  http://support.Apple.com/kb/TS1812?viewlocale=en_US

  In the case of the...

  Try taking the battery for 10 minutes.  Put back in the battery.  Fingers crossed. Turn the machine back on.

  How do I eject the cd from the internal drive:

  eject the cd

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  devalias

  List of variables:

  printenv

• MacBook Pro question mark flashing, no wifi, only own internet connection

  I have a flashing question mark on start up with my MacBook Pro. Through the process of restarting, but it asks me to choose a wifi network. I did not, as my computer has its own internet connection, so can not continue to the next step. Help please?

  If you are connected to internet through being directly connected to a modem via ethernet. You should be able to ignore the WIFI configuration prompt. Have you used the option of disk utility to check the repair or erase the disc? The withdrawal volume. You can also try using command/Option/R for recovery to see if you can use ethernet. I did once and trying to remember how I did it.

• image folder of the file with question mark flashing on the screen

  I just bought a 2 month old 15 "macbook pro to an individual. I turned it on this morning and there is a picture of a small folder with a question mark in the Center, flashing on and outside. does anyone have a solution for this?

  Hi Hotrod45:

  Was this before start or is this the first time you the active since buying it?

  Check out this technical note. If flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac - Apple Support

  Kim

• keyboard keys change symbols in red. I would like to change itself can use quotation marks and question marks instead of the capital, etc. who are now working.

  keyboard keys change the symbols in red on each key.
  I want to change back so I can use quotes and mark instead of the capital points, etc. that appears now, when I hit the SHIFT key.

  What type of computer you are using

  in what application are you facing this?
  You can also try to perform a system restore to an earlier time to check if the question

  If it's a laptop computer consult the manufacturer for help

• Blue boxes and question marks...

  I have blue boxes and? images on my site and my link to a downloadable pdf does not work. What should I do? I am VERY new to Dreamweaver and feel I missed something. The site is defined and the images and pdf link are in the folder of the site.

  Good so I downloaded the files, and makes sure that the file structure is the same in Fetch as in Dreamweaver. It worked! Thank you! Now, the pdf file did not previously exist on the site when I did the hyperlink for download. How can I get the link on Fetch?

• Even in Safe Mode, minimize, restore and close is missing, even if the functions remain, and a dialog box now appears at the opening of the FF.

  Since I installed the latest update of Firefox, reduce it, restore, and close are missing visually, even if their functions are always present.

  I also started to have one of these dialog boxes asking whether or not I'd like to allow a program to make changes to my PC when I open Firefox.

  I could fix this apparently either by way of turn disable the compatibility mode setting, or by rebooting completely.

  Then, Firefox logo disappeared from the icon for a while, being replaced by the default Windows system image which is displayed under the icon of unspecified files.

  I do not know whether or not the uninstalling and reinstalling Flash Player and restart had something to do with this corrected, but at some point, she is back to normal.

• I accidentally entered my password in the field 'user ID' a website connection, and pre-populating it now appear in the list of suggestions for that field. Is there a way to make the pre-fill 'forget' a specific entry?

  While connecting to a secure Web site, I was typing too fast and accidentally included my password in the field ID used while connection and press enter before I realized my mistake. I then connected properly, but now Firefox include this false entry (with another entry accidentally misspelled) in the list of suggestions of pre-filling every time I go to this page. I prefer not to cut completely from pre-filling, but obviously I don't want my password to be specified. Can I delete the wrong entry in the list of suggestions as pre-filling watch somehow? (I use Firefox 6.0 on Windows 7)

  Select the entry in the drop-down menu and press "DELETE", Mac users, press 'Shift + Delete '.

• Stuck flashing question mark.

  I had a few circle of problems of death. I've formatted it to el Capitan. I had problems in formatting as well. But when I did a clean install to external hard drive, I was able to format correctly without taking a lot of time. But still sometimes the circle of death occurred even when I had enough disk space, and also when I don't have a heavy use of Mac.

  Now when I was surfing, all of a sudden my Mac stop automatically and when I rebooted him question mark flashing appears. Tried all the things available on net - but is not able to detect my drive hard back. So not able to repair or use first aid for hard disk and no option to format.

  So according to the different peoples view I think it's perhaps because of one of these:

  1 hard drive failure.

  2. defective cable.

  I'll be very grateful if someone can help me with this.

  Thanks in advance.

  Hi Senoritalife,

  Yes, it sounds like you may have a defective hard drive, or the fastening cable that became it loose. I advise to visit your local apple store and have then check hard drive status.

  Also, please try all the steps in this article before contacting the genius of Apple: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204323

  Thank you

  Alex

• on my network card, a question mark appears that wasn't there. He appeared as a "switch" until I disabled "sharing network". He went away for a day and returned. This is a hack of nieghborhood?

  My mother is a modem from Qwest. I'm on a laptop with wireless on the same account. We were on a homegroup network. I found a question mark on its network card and a photograph camera, on mine with the name 'switch' and no other info on this subject between the computer and the modem peak. I called Qwest and they said they didn't know what it was. So I disabled all the sharing network. He went away. 2 days ago. Today, I checked again, he had again disappeared from the workstation but now it's back on mine, but it shows up as a question mark, as it did on the desktop. And also, there were a few weird anomilies appear on our computers. Do I have a virus or maybe a neighborhood hacker?

  If you use Microsoft Security Essentials, start here - https://support.microsoftsecurityessentials.com/ and select the link that says - I think my computer is infected. Options vary by region, but phone support leads you to the Microsoft answer service (http://www.answerdesk.com/) in the USA at this time. After an initial free consultation, will be charged a fee for assistance, based on the details of the case.

  If this is not the case, go to your provider AV.

  You can also try this web site - http://www.bleepingcomputer.com - contains details for most common infections, often immediately after that they started to appear in the wild, and instructions are provided for how to remove infections using their malware removal guides. They also have forums where you can seek assistance from people who specialize in the removal of malware.

  Here are other free programs that can help:

  Malwarebytes anti-malware free - http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free Please note, do not accept the trial version of MBAM Pro that it will conflict with MSE while the free version won't.

  SUPERAntiSpyware Free - http://www.superantispyware.com/downloadfile.html?productid=superantispywarefree

  TDSSKiller (free) - http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208283363

  HitmanPro (free for 30 days) - http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro