Don't Know what's wrong ?
I have had my macbook pro for about 2 years right now, and I haven't had any major problems with it so far. I had some battery issues but that was because I updated to the new OS and it is not as bad anymore. I also had to get my sata cable replaced a few months ago because of the question mark issue. I had done it in December and it was at an apple store.
Today I was using my computer and all of a sudden my webpages wouldn't load while using chrome and my computer started to freeze up a little. So at first I thought it was just a wifi problem and went to the bathroom before reseting my router. After coming out from the bathroom I saw that my mac had a a grey screen so I restarted it, and reset the PRAM or whatveer it is with comand option P + R. After I did that my macbook screen went white and after a while the dreaded ? Mark Sign Came Back. So I restarted my computer and pressed command R or option R. Which sent me into a menu to Restore From time Machine, OSX reinstall , Internet Solution, and Disk Utility. So I just pressed Disk Utility and Verified and Repaired my disk and its said that "Macintosh HD was Ok". So I restarted my computer and It worked so I thought I had dodged a bullet. About an hour and half later the same exact thing happened. I was using basic webpages on google chrome, my computer froze, went to gray screen and then the question mark folder and I had to the command R thing again and then I ran the same disk utility method and It started to workagain. I am out of the country and there is no apple stores near me or authorized apple repair shops. Does anyone have any idea of what might be going wrong. Any help would greatly be appreciated.
The folder with a question mark at startup means that no bootable system could be found. There are several possible reasons for that. One is that your system is badly corrupt and needs to be reinstalled. This can also be accompanied by hard drive corruption that needs to be repaired by Disk Utility, or sometimes that can't be fixed or can't be detected by Disk Utility. Since Disk Utility says your disk is okay, you can try reinstalling Mac OS X right on top of the existing system. If that doesn't work, though, you should erase the hard drive with Disk Utility and reinstall from scratch.
Another possibility is that your hard drive is failing. All hard drives fail at some point, and sometimes this sort of behavior is the only warning you'll get. (Sometimes you get no warning at all.) Be sure to back up your data, and if the problem persists even after erasing, you may need to get the hard drive replaced.
Finally, you could have some other hardware problem causing the issue. If nothing else helps, get the machine checked out by Apple.
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package myManagement;
* @author roadorange
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