Not much educated on the "question mark" subject, but its happend 2 times to me and one time in the office, when it happend with me i booted from CD, formatted the HD ( every computer i got till date, i partition it so i can use one section for a backup, it would be a good practice to do so) and it would work just fine again. The second time i got the " ? " i did a CD boot, ran diskutility and it showed errors with the main partition and showed sucessful for the 2nd partition, i tried to fix permission and repair, but it couldent, hence back to square one, i wiped that partition clean and installed the system again. Voila m back up on OS X.
I wouldent know if this would help you in anyway as you would have files on your hard drive you need. If you give it to a service center, then they blindly tell you you need a new HDD. but as magnus said you could try out diskwarrior etc and see if you can sort it out though that first. Hope that helps.
Cheers.
19th June 2008, 09:44
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