MacBook Pro won't boot, test says HD is ok

My MacBook Pro (purchased October '09) won't boot up, it's just hung up on the gray screen with the spinning icon. I installed the OS-X install disc and ran the disk utility. It tested the hard drive and said it was ok, I then selected to boot from the hard drive and again it's hung up. If I bring it to the Apple store will they be able to salvage the contents of the hard drive if a repair is necessary? Any help would be appreciated......

Sound like you have corrupted your boot kernel. You can do a archive install. I believe that is what Apple will do. Some will come along and correct me if I am wrong.

I just searched and read how to do the Archive Install. It appears to make an image of all your files, so am I correct to assume I would not loose my pics, music, documents, etc? Also I just tried to start it up in safe mode and am having the same results.

yzfmik said:

I just searched and read how to do the Archive Install. It appears to make an image of all your files, so am I correct to assume I would not loose my pics, music, documents, etc? Also I just tried to start it up in safe mode and am having the same results.

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You are correct. You will not loose any of your things on your computer. Good luck!

Thanks guys! I'll try it in a little bit and let ya know how it went.

Whew!! Worked perfectly!