? just before the apple logo at start up

Just had the hard drive replaced at the local Apple store (it had the click of death and took all of my wife's academic work with it to the grave). Now, at start-up, it displays the folder with a ? for an instant before the Apple logo appears. Is this cause for concern?

No. Simply go into your System Preferences and select 'Start-up Disc'. Then make sure that your hard drive is the one selected to startup from.

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