Macbook pro won't boot to OSX, bootcamp windows works fine. Also won't boot from disk, even with a new (blank) hard drive inserted. Any ideas (I've already tried everything I could find on the forums with no success)?

Hi,
I'm just wondering if anyone has found a solution to this kind of problem. I've found lots of similar posts, but none that have any solutions that will work.
Cheers

Did some research, what I did was acidentally convert my disks to dynamic, and dynamic doesnt allow you to boot from them, so if I were to plug this macbook's HDD into another computer and them use that computers disk manager to convert them back to basic, would they then be usable again, or have I caused damage that requires a reinstall.
Thanks

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