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Greetings,
Today I opened my macbook pro at work, and something happened that I had to reboot it. When I rebooted it, I got what looks to be a dead end sign. I suspected that it had to be the HD. I then placed the Installation Disk in the optical drive to run Disk Utility. When I successfully ran DU, unfortunately, neither my BOOTCAMP HD nor my Mac OS X HD was shown.
I really need help on this. I am beginning to be desperate.

It wasn't a folder with a question mark it was stop-sign-like. I figured that it could be the HD, so I bought a new one. The problem is, when I try to install Snow Leopard, the installer does not recognize it. So I go to Disk Utility to see if there is a internal HD, and it does not find it, neither!
I bought a Samsung SATA 500GB internal HD, installed the hardware successfully, but the installer still does not show me an active internal HD.
I am really frustrated that even after a couple of days working on this, I couldn't find an answer.

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