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Here's a response from another thread that may be helpful -- (it is for me!):

The problem was a disk failure. I tried to boot up using Mac OS X Snow Leopard install that I mounted onto an external drive. That worked (press OPTION after powering up), but the disk couldn't be repaired (using Disk Utility). A program called Data Rescue 3, which I also mounted to an external...

(1) I made Mac OS X Snow Leopard bootable on an external hard drive. (2) I held down Option when booting up and the Mac OS X Install showed up. (3) I opened Disk Utility and tried to repair the disk. (4) The disk couldn't be repaired. Now I'm stuck trying to see if I can recover any...

Does this solution work if my Mac cannot find the Macintosh HD drive but goes straight to Windows XP (I have the Mac partitioned)? Will the files there before the problem still be there? Or is it basically a reinstall? My problem is, after using CleanMyMac and doing a software update, the...

I have a similar problem, but different. My MacBook Air OS X startup disk had almost run out of space (mostly because I have a Windows XP partition for a program I needed), so I spent the day deleting files and then finally using a program called CleanMyMac. Then once I had 6GB free, I...