Yes, its is selected as the startup disk.
on 23/09/2010 19:51 Jason Davies sent the following:
Is it selected as startup disk? Check it is and see if that fixes it.
> From my iPhone
On 23 Sep 2010, at 19:10, Graham Street<[email protected]> wrote:
A couple of weeks ago, I applied an Apple software update that needed a reboot.
On the reboot, the screen went white (as normal) but no Apple logo and spinning
wheel appeared. After around a minute, there was a folder icon in the middle of
the screen and a flashing question-mark on it. A few Net searches, via another
computer, indicated that the drive might be at fault. So, out came the
DiskWarrior DVD. It didn't find anything important but I told it to replace the
directory. My Mac Pro then rebooted and has been running without a problem for
the next two weeks.
I needed to reboot it earlier this evening. I shut everything down orderly and
then selected 'Restart'. I got the same as last time - the folder with the
question-mark on it. Another run of the DiskWarrior DVD and there was just one
'text encoding' repair of a PDF in an iDVD folder. Again, I allowed DW to
replace the directory and the computer booted up perfectly. Once this was done,
Apple Software Update suggested a security update and a Safari update to 5.0.2.
I let it do these and reboot itself. The updates went in ok but, on reboot,
there is the folder and question-mark again.
Once again, I used DW and it found nothing wrong. Again, I let it rewrite the
directory. The Mac Pro rebooted and is running perfectly again, and I'm writing
this message to SMUG on it.
Any ideas anyone? Is the drive on its way out and perhaps I should replace it
just in case? Or does anyone suggest anything else?
Thanks, Graham
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