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After a power shortage my Mac Mini (A1103) does not boot anymore. I can hear the start sound and see a little folder symbol with a question mark in it. What can I do?
The folder with the question mark means your system can’t find a bootable system. The power fluctuation may have damaged the system. Try starting up from your system installation disk by inserting the disk and restarting holding down the “C” key. Go to the second screen pull down menu to Utilities -> Disk utility and repart the drive and repair the permissions. Now try to start up.
What do I do if the internal drive won’t boot, but on booting the utility CD and going to Disk Utility, I can see the drive, but the “Verify Disk Permissions” and “Repair Disk Permissions” buttons are grayed out? The “Verify Disk” and “Repair Disk” buttons are useable, but they both simply run through their checks and come up clean?
