![]() On newer Macs 2013 to current, press and hold down Option + Command + R keys after pressing the power button to launch the hidden APFS recovery partition. If the unit is stuck on the loading screen for longer then 5 minutes and will not boot, restart the Mac and select the recovery partition and boot into that. If the unit boots up, great! You can now restart the unit and perform a NVRAM reset, and everything should be back to normal. If you see two drives click the drive that is labeled Macintosh HD/SSD or Untitiled, not the drive labeled Recovery. If you don’t see any drives but you see the mouse that means the drive cable or the drive it self is bad and needs replacement. Keep holding it until you see the mouse and some drives. The first thing you can do to determine if this can be a quick fix is to shut down the Mac, and as soon as you press the power button, press and hold the Option key. The hard Drive is bad or is on it’s way out (common with mechanical drives).Hard Drive Cable is loose or is bad (Very common in Older Macbook Pros).A failed update or corrupt NVRAM settings file that points to the drive.Why does this happen? For three main reasons. ![]() The mac then has looked in all places and has found nothing that is bootable by the UEFI. The mac has looked at the last used boot up record and can’t find it. ![]() In short, the question mark folder is a default animation for a Missing Operating System. The very beginning of this process is stored inside of what Apple calls NVRAM non volatile random access memory. So just a little background on this… apple uses UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) to connect the internal parts of the Mac with the Operating System. ![]() Hi guys, if you are facing a question mark folder like this on your Mac, then you came to the right place: This fix will work on any Macbook, iMac, Mac Mini or Mac Pro. #Folder with question mark mac new hard drive how toThis video guide explains in rich detail how to fix the question mark folder on any Mac. ![]()
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