Can anyone help did a search and nothing?!!

gthmcty1

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I am unsure if my HD is on the dump or what but this is what happened the Macbook was working fine had Leopard installed everything was peachy! I go to shut down and restart in OS 10 and nothing, I hold down the alt key...my options are the mac HD and windows and I click MAC HD and nothing it is as if there was no boot record on the MAC HD or it became corrutpted! So I try all of the known options to decipher this and nothing. I figure I would tak a chance and hook it up via firewire to my friends G4 and everything comes up no pproblem I cn see my Mac HD and everything on it.

So ithen proceed to refire it back up to only be greeted by windows (boot camp was installed BTW), so I hook it back up via firewire and open disk utility and try to to run utility and it says there is no problem found and I cannot do a disc repair permission and it will not let me do that (grayed out). So at this point I decide to try and utilize my leopard install cd and to my surprise the CD will not even boot!!! I can select it if I power up and hit alt and hold it comes up but I cannot even start anything from it! It will not even give me an disk utilities! So I hook it up again via firewire and format my apple HD using GUIA and I have ignore ownership UNCHECKED, but still nothing! I am so frustrated right now the book is not under any apple care any longer but I have accomplished 2 things:
1. I have successfully lost all of may data on my HD
2. I have succesfully lost all my data on my protable HD as well

The above 2 items are being stated sarcastically cause I am so pisse right now, I really am not that concerned about my data I just want my Macbook working again can any one help? i thought it maybe the HD but when my OS X stop working it wouldn't boot, but I could boot into Vista WTF??? and then I completely reformatted and now I cannot do anything, does the mac OS have to be in play in order for the super drive to work or evn function, if it as the HD y would vista boot and not mac os x? Can any one offer any help? Please I am desperate to have my macbook working I do NOT want to go back to vista please!!!
 
MAYBE---IF you can open time machine and go back to before it all happend you can see how your computor was at that time-select your sys, etc. and click on restore-just maybe you can get it all back??? just ideas trying to help.
dickster---------------it worked for me on two problems.
 
You did very well. You had the chance to save the data and ignored it.


The cd player might be dead. Try the original OS installation disc that came with the mac. If that will not boot also, you are in deep trouble.

Normally i do not have high hopes on it, but clearing the battery (pram) might work in this situation (press the apple-alt-p-r keys at the same time) immediately after turning the mac on.

Use C to force the mac to start from CD.


If the harddrive is bad, the cd should run normally. If the cd is bad, instatllation might be corrupted, so the drive might not boot properly.


Good luck, Kees
 
Guys thanks for the input unfortunately me being new to Mac I did no such thing as backing up the system! That was an extremely dumb mistake on my part! The cd drive recognizes my leopard cd, unfortunately when I purchased the mac it was online and the restore cd was not included. I have purchased another HD in hopes that this will solve the problem (keeping fingers crossed). Also I installed another HD from my PC laptop and it recognized the HD as "Windows" so at this point I am unsure if it is a hardware issue (motherboard maybe?) I will be able to tell upon my receipt of the new HD which should be here this week. Is it possible to go to an apple store and purchase a restore cd for my macbook? Maybe this will help? Also can any answer why I cannot boot up from my leopard DVD? Does it not have a boot file on it? Thanks for all your help it is greatly appreciated especially coming from a PC over to MAC I absolutely love my macbook......now if I can only get it working again!LOL
 
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