# Macbook won't boot

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/macbook-wont-boot/230903>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [June 29, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/macbook-wont-boot/230903 "2007-06-29T20:34:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![h88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@h88](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/h88)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/macbook-wont-boot/230903/1 "2007-06-29T20:34:52Z")

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and after turning it on it shows a flashing question-marked folder. This happened only after a system restart. I did my homework, and searched macrumors. Much to my dismay a few posts claim that that is indicative of a hard drive death. To make matters worse the disk utility found in Disc 1 isn’t recognizing the hard drive, so no repair process can be attempted. Has this happened to anyone before? Are the data recoverable, at least?