At start up I get a blinking? in a folder icon
When I turn the computer, I get a blinking ? in a folder icon
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Your Book cannot find a startup system. Either the system folder is corrupted or your hard drive has gone bad. Try starting up from your system installation disk. Insert disk and restart holding doen the "C" key. Go to the second screen pull down menu to Utilities -> Disk Utility and see if you can repair the hard drive. If not, let us know for how to recover data and install a new hard drive.
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Yes, agreed, your MacBook cannot find the start up disk. Mine has been like that for months until today when I tried all sorts of things again including starting from boot disks (I have a partitioned hard drive: one with with OS X.6 and the with OS10.11). I ended up powering it down, taking the battery out for 5 minutes while it cooled down and then started it up while pressing down and holding the "option" key.
A pad lock appeared on the screen and after entering the correct password in the field beneath it, 4 large hard disk icons appeared labelled with my 2 start up hard drives, an emergency OS X.11.6 start up hard drive (which must be part of the operating system) and the OS X.6 DVD which was in the disk drive. There was an arrow beneath the OS X.11 hard drive so I selected it and it booted!
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