When I turn my MBA on, I don't hear any noise and a picture of a flashing file comes up with a question mark over it. Does anyone know what this is, and is there anything I can do or do I need to bring it to Apple? Kind of desperate because I need it for a project... thanks.
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I think my MBA crashed...
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Well, you'll need an external superdrive and the leopard install discs that your MBA came with. Stick the install disc into the superdrive and boot from it by holding down the "c" key when you turn it on. Then, reinstall leopard.
It's the same as you would any other Mac. I see by your sig. you've got a couple
You'll probably need an Air SD and your Air install disks. I'm not sure how an install would be done via remote disk with a hard crash like yours.
See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58042
The same thing happened to me last week. Booting to an external drive with the leopard dvd by holding down C works fine. If I run disk utility from the installer, it can't find the hard drive.
Resetting PRAM, SMC, and half a dozen other voodoo startup key combinations did nothing. I ended up sending it to apple for repair.
The same thing happened to me last week. Booting to an external drive with the leopard dvd by holding down C works fine. If I run disk utility from the installer, it can't find the hard drive.
Resetting PRAM, SMC, and half a dozen other voodoo startup key combinations did nothing. I ended up sending it to apple for repair.
I thought the Air was able to boot to the Remote Disk install screen regardless of what's on the Air's hard drive?
MBM355, you might try checking out this post:
http://guides.macrumors.com/Complete_Steps_to_Perform_a_Clean_OS_X_Reinstall_on_Your_MacBook_Air
.. there should be steps on how to reinstall the hard drive using the Remote Disk.
You can also call AppleCare and they can help you through it.
MBM355, you might try checking out this post:
http://guides.macrumors.com/Complete_Steps_to_Perform_a_Clean_OS_X_Reinstall_on_Your_MacBook_Air
.. there should be steps on how to reinstall the hard drive using the Remote Disk.
You can also call AppleCare and they can help you through it.
Well I bought the Superdrive today and before I tried reinstalling I figured I would turn the air on just for one last shot... and it works now! Oh well, I needed the drive anyway. I'm still going to make an appointment at the Apple store so they can diagnose the problem.