MacBook Pro 8,1 no OS to boot?

     OK, so here is the problem. When I boot up my Mac, it loads up rEFIt, but only has the 'Legacy OS' option, which points to no operating system. Before, I had the option for Windows 8, and OSX Mavericks. In essence, my Mac has absolutely no OS to choos to boot from, and if I did not have rEFIt, I would probably be faced with a disk with a question mark.
     This is what I think is the cause of the problem: I was using the computer on a somewhat wobbly desk, somebody bumped into the desk, causing the computer to freeze. This, I thought, was normal, as any sudden motion would cause the Sudden-Motion Sensor to lock the HDD, freezing the system. But the system did not recover, for roughly 10 minutes. At that point, I just held down the power button, because I had to go.
     About 20 minutes later, I tried to boot the system again, and I was met with this.
     What I would like to know is, is this problem recoverable? If so, how would I do so?
     (Another detail is, if I hold Option down, it only lists Windows, and rEFIt. No recovery option, and the Windows option gives me 'Missing operating system', as I removed it manually.)

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Windows 7 needs at least Boot Camp 3.1 and 3.3 is what you should already have. And you are not getting security updates if you don't have at least 10.6.8 as was pointed out. --- you arent using Software Update as you should. And you should backup and clone Mac (and Windows) as well.
You need Mountain Lion to use Boot Camp 5.x which supports Windows 7 & 8 and 64-bit.
I would upgrade to Lion if you can realizing that Rosetta and PowerPC are no longer supported though.
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https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1461
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Boot Camp Manuals
Boot Camp 5.0 Drivers
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1638
Frequently asked question
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4818
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.6.pdf
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4407
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1638
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This is how I was able to set verbose mode to see what was going on even though I haven't the slightest clue (I've never had a problem with OS X till today and I understand how Windows works far more than OS X - in fact I use OS X so I don't have to worry about things like this). Everything on the partition seems to still be in tact, the drive is working, but something is causing what's included in the screenshots to occur - and when these errors occur everything seems to get set into overdrive (the fan spins at max, the processor heats up, and the system in general warms up to what it feels like under very heavy load).
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/cb9ldqc2mp8zlsc/image.jpeg
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It is my sister's MBP, but I am the tech savvy brother (says her) and I should be able to fix it. Well, I've tried my trade and failed.
When I started, her MBP would get stuck on the progress indicator (spinning circle) and never move past that.
The first thing I did was Archive and Install, which worked but yielded an incredibly slow system. I told her it was because her HD was too full. We deleted some things and managed to free up 8 GBs of space, but that did not help. I installed some software updates and rebooted the laptop. Unfortunately, it got stuck on the progress indicator again and never moved past it. I was devastated.
I did another archive and install, but was never asked to insert the second install disc. The hard drive is completely full now.
I told her I could format, but she apparently has pictures of her newborn on there that she refuses to let me delete.
So, I brainstormed.
I have a laptop, a PC, and a 8GB flash drive. I put Ubuntu on the flash drive, booted it on the laptop, and connected my laptop to her Mac via Firewire. I could access her HD, but could not get into the photos folder. It said I lacked permissions.
I've tried resetting the NVRAM, repairing disc permissions, repairing disc.
I ran the hardware test and was only presented with an already known fan error. (Her left fan and her battery do not work.)
Her computer now gets passed the progress indicator, goes to a solid blue screen and changes brightness every couple seconds.
I read that I should remove and then reinsert the RAM, but I do not have a screwdriver small enough to open the case.
I was told to connect another MacBook Pro with her Mac to access the files, but I am afraid I will get the same 'permissions error'.
The Apple repair store tried to get my sister to pay a $300 premium for the repairs, saying that the repairs could cost as much as $1,200.
Please ask any questions necessary.
Until 3 days ago I had never touched a Mac.
I have learned a lot in the past couple days, but not enough apparently.
Any help is extremely appreciated.
Also, this might be in the wrong forum. If so, I apologize. Please move it.
- Carson

Unfortunately, I do not have access to another Mac.
I just tried to run that scenario using my Ubuntu flash drive, but there is no way to change permissions.
I would be more interested in getting the MBP to actually work, but I would settle for getting the information of it it.
I have a friend with a Mac, and I will try that solution if nothing else comes up.

Macbook Pro 15inch Early 2011 very long boot time, Macbook Pro 15inch Early 2011 very long boot time

I have the macbook pro early 2011 15inch. i7 processor, 500gb hard drive, and 4gb ram and have Moutain lion installed. The computer takes a good minute to boot to the login screen and then probably another 30 - 45 seconds to actually login and be able to do stuff on the desktop.
The comptuer has plenty of hard drive space, about 370gb. I dont think it should be taking this long for my comptuer to boot up. What can I do to make this boot time faster? (I am currently looking to get an ssd but that wont be for a while untill i get the money) So what can I do in the meantime to help it boot faster?

First go to Disk Utility and verify disk and repair if needed then repair permissions. Do you have any antivirus installed? Then go through all of your apps and check to make sure they are compatible using www.roaringapps.com. I guarantee it is an incompatible app or antivirus causing the issue. Also, look at Thomas A Reeds, Understanding Upgrade Nightmares article, http://www.reedcorner.net/understanding-upgrade-nightmares/

Early 2011 2GHz Macbook pro distorted blue screen then wont boot, 3 times in last 2 weeks

I have an early 2011, 2GHz macbook pro (15' model with ati radeon graphics). It was running fine for the last two years. Over the last couple of weeks, following things happen:
1. I was running on bootcamp windows, browsing and some flash content was open, suddenly distorted blue stripes appear and it froze. Force shut down using power button, turn on again and it wont boot on windows or mac, or recovery partition or from the dvd. Tried for about 4 hours, after nvram, pram reset, it was able to safe boot, then run disk utility to verify and repair the disk, it said that there were problems with hard drive and fixed,then booted normally.
2. I thought that the problem might be because I was on windows, so took a back up of the windows drive, erased it and installed windows 8 using bootcamp. It ran well for an week. After that, once I connected it with the tv using HDMI to watch a video, after I disconnected it, the screen was garbled over the windows start screen, but I was able to command restart normally. After restart, it wont boot to windows or mac.
3. After several hours of trying, i was able to boot using the dvd this time, it said it 'can not install mac on the hard drive', erased the hard drive and it was able to install the os (snow leopard). After completing install, logged in to app store to download previously purchased mountain lion. Then ran it to upgrade the os, after the upgrade was completed, at the point when it prompts for apple id and password to set up icloud, it again froze with distorted blue screen. Shut down forcefully. Then turn on again and it wont boot. After the white screen and the sound, it shows the apple logo and spinning wheel for a while, then a bright white screen and nothing happens.
Can anybody help reading the symptoms?

I have the Early 2011 2GHz Macbook Pro and I have the same problem too.
I switched out the logicboard a month ago and today the graphics just went distorted.
Any solutions? Now I'm thinking it is the Graphics Card.

MacBook Pro 15 '' (mid 2010) won't boot up

Hi,
This is my first post in the Apple Foruns, been lurking for awhile, however, have never run into any problems with my MacBook Pro.
A couple of days ago, I hav had several situations where while using my Macbook, it would crash, the Beachball would come up and he would not respond to any commands, only by pressing the power button to Force Shut Down would work.
After this started happening, during a boot, I got the prohibitory sign .
After this happened, everytime I boot it up, it sometimes boots, but most of the time, it doesn't. I have tried:
- Safeboot (Shift-Command-V - and I do see an error 19 that mentions that the System cannot mount the drive)
- Tried booting from my BootCamp partition, but that also does not boot, mentions that it should run the StartUp repair from Windows, but will not load.
I think this might be a faulty HDD, so in one of the times I managed to boot to OS X, I used the Disk Utility, Verified the Disk and it stops midway with an error stating that the "Volume is corrupt" and must be repaired using the Disk Utility from the Mac OS X Install DVD.
As I do not know where my Install DVD is, I tried booting in single user mode, performed a fsck, which detected some issues, repaired them (ran fsck 3 times before it gave the "Volume is ok" message) and rebooted.
Got in to OS X, ran Disk Utility again just to double check, and it gave the same "Volume is corrupt" message.
Booted to Single User mode once more, ran the fsck again, which gave the message that the "Volume is ok".
I wonder, since I carry my laptop around with me, no second skin, and have to say it has suffered some several bumps and shocks, it can be the HDD which has died?
This was hinted by:
- Safeboot (Shift-Command-V - and I do see an error 19 that mentions that the System cannot mount the drive)
- BootCamp partition also does not boot, mentions that it should run the StartUp repair from Windows, but will not load.
- Having the Volume stated Corrupt by Disk Utility inside the OS, but having fsck stating it's ok
Now, I am confortable with buying a new HDD, install it and re-install the OS, but should I still try to format my current HDD and re-install the OS on it?
Also I do not have my Install DVD's, if I phone Apple (I'm from Portugal) will they provide Replacement DVD's?

...and the boot up media i'm using are the origianl 10.6 and 10.5 disc.
Your mid-2010 computer requires a minimum of OS X 10.6.3 to boot. Only the disc that was shipped with it contains the necessary version. A retail 10.6 disc can't boot it, and no 10.5.x disc can boot it. Use the one that was shipped with it and no other.

The Tale of the Beeping Macbook - AKA- My Macbook Pro keeps beeping when trying to boot into Snow Leopard Disc's disk utility

Quick back story: about a month ago my macbook was falling and I caught it quickly, I had a game controller in my hand and it lightly hit it whilst I was catching it; the laptop made no contact with the floor, couch etc. Upon reveling in my epic matrix esque catch I noticed it was beeping and the screen was completely black - Horrified I held down the power button for a forced power down and then turned it back on to see that it was fine, along with no visible scars, dents etc to the chassis. Now flash forward to present day, and the macbook pro is only two months old (bought may 4th 2011) and I notice it's got some slightly irregular slow loading points when loading a browser, photoshop, etc. I do the standard disk utility to verify the disc and it says
"Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Invalid volume file count
(It should be 537095 instead of 537096)
Invalid volume directory count
(It should be 161641 instead of 161640)
The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk."
So I put in the snow leopard disc to go to the disk utility within, reboot the laptop, and it goes to the gray boot screen with the dark gray apple logo and stays there whilst doing the aforementioned beep from my spider-sense catch. Does anyone happen to know what is wrong? Would that tiny tap from my controller when catching it have caused this problem I have now? Is there anything I can do at home to fix this since I can't get to the disk utility on the snow leopard disk? Will Batman ever get out of the Joker's trap? Or am I better off just making a genius bar appointment? Thanks in advance.
-ZRS

Are you using the Snow Leopard disc that came with that Mac? A gray disc that came with a different Mac won't boot yours, and a Retail (white) disc with a version of OSX earlier than the one your Mac came with won't boot it, either.
If you don't have the right disc, do you have an external HD, or can you borrow one?
(By the way, your post shows you're running Tiger; you might want to update that.)

I have a macbook pro 13" 2011, When my computer boots I get code on my boot up screen and then my computer shuts off and then restarts. Its an endless loop, as my computer tries to boot up.

I have a Macbook Pro 13", that was purchased in 2010-2011. So randomly yesterday, when I boot up my computer I got to the boot screen, then code popped up on my screen. ** I have attached an image of the code below.** But after the code pops up, my computer shuts down, and tries to boot up again. This is an endless loop and doesn't get passed the boot screen. The code shows up everytime.
I personally believe this might be a software issue and not a hardware. Please feel free to shoot out any ideas or a translation of what the code is referring to.
THINGS I HAVE ALREADY DONE:
- Reset the PRAM by holding CMD+Option+P+R
- Gone into Safemode and tired to verify the Harddrive.
- Please don't comment saying, "take out the battery." , "hold the power button for.." , None of that sh#* works.
Below is three different links for the same image. (just in case, **** breaks).
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http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2z82stl&s=8#.U0LJidy4nFI

What happens if you boot holding the command S keys down?
If it stays running in single user mode
try the command
fsck -fy
You could try holding the option key on bootup, to see if presents you with a startup disk however
It looks as if you need to reistall the OS.

Macbook Pro intel core duo, will not boot to anything.

Greetings, I am currently having issues with my MacBook Pro. I get the flashing folder with the ?, but I can't boot to any of the startup utilities. I have tried all that I have read about on other posts, such as, trying to boot with the C key held down (it just gets to the folder ?), booting to disk utility didn't work ( held down keys and it went to the folder ?), I also tried getting to the hardware test, by holding D and having the applications disk in. And still everything I try gets me to the flashing folder ?. Also I do have the CD's that came with the laptop and tried to install from the mas os install CD and still get to the flashing folder ?. The reason it started doing this was because of this...... I had boot camp installed and was running dual boot with windows 7, then I had deleted the mac osx on the drive so I would only be using windows 7. I wanted to reformat the drive after this, but had a hard time finding out a way to actually do this, as the MacBook unlike PC's, doesn't have any BIOS, and at that time didn't know all the key commands to use at startup. So I downloaded a program from the net that can run at windows start and delete the HD before the computer fully boots windows 7. So after I deleted the HD I could not install any program or start any of the mac utilities at startup, and I did the PRAM reset, still everything that I try it gets me to the flashing folder ?, in the end. Could I have deleted all of the startup utilities when I wiped the HD? If so how can I get these back on my MacBook pro if I can't get the MacBook pro to read any files or start up utilities? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

UPDATE: I found a way to download firmware, I thought that it could be the reason I get the flashing folder with ?, because maybe I somehow damaged the firmware on my computer when I did the reformat. Alas I followed the directions to re-install the firmware and still I get to the same flashing folder. I used FirmwareRestorationCD1.4 I think it is the one I needed for my model, MacBook Pro 15" intel core 2 duo, and comes with osx 10.5 leopard I think, the OSX CD is stamped 2008 for 15" MacBook Pro. I can't check the properties of my MacBook because it has no programs on it, but this is what I think it is from memory and deduction. Well now I guess I have to ask the question, is the firmware the programs installed such as disk utility, and recovery mode? I need to read more I guess, and also I thought I needed to take the 1.4 off the end of the FirmwareRestorationCD in order for it to work, but the instructions for making and using the firmware CD is a bit vague. Another factor in this to make things more difficult, is that this computer is my second computer and it's a PC laptop, so I used a program download from the net to write .dmg files to disk, it's called Transmac, could this be another fault in my creation of the CD? I am out of ideas again as to what I need to do to get mac OSX back on my computer, I am still a bit new to the way macs work, so I could definatley use some advice. thanks.

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