After pressing the power button I’m greeted with a greyish blue screen with a circle and a line through it. It then flashes with the apple logo and a folder with a question mark and gets stuck in a flashing loop.
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A prohibitory symbol, which looks like a circle with a line or slash through it, means that your startup disk contains a Mac operating system, but it's not a version or build of macOS that your Mac can use.
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Is the data on the drive backed up?
by Andrew S
It’s a fresh drive with a version of mavericks on it which isn’t backed up but I’m not bothered about that. @andrewsawesome
by finoey coomea
@finleycoombes Press the power button, then immediately start holding Command+R until you see a screen that says "MacOS Utilities". Double-Click "Disk Utility". What partitions do you see?
by Andrew S
500.11gb drive
Jhjg (name of the drive)
SuperDrive
Disk1
Os x base system
@andrewsawesome
by finoey coomea
yeah at least the folder with the "?"
Its the drive
by Ben Capehart
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