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?
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 Andrew S crwdne2934271:0
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
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 finoey coomea crwdne2934271:0
@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?
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500.11gb drive
Jhjg (name of the drive)
SuperDrive
Disk1
Os x base system
@andrewsawesome
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 finoey coomea crwdne2934271:0
yeah at least the folder with the "?"
Its the drive
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 Ben Capehart crwdne2934271:0
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