A bit ago, my 13" Macbook Pro, purchased June 2010, started to have problems. It would freeze up, and I could do nothing with it but move around the colorful spinning cursor. I tried to reformat the hard drive, and this worked, but once things got past the intro movie everything went very, very slowly and it eventually froze up again before I could get through selecting my settings and setting up my user account.
My friend told me that it was probably my HDD, and I could replace it with a SSD which would fix these problems and greatly increase the speed of my computer. So I ordered one and installed it, but the SSD was not recognized by disk utility. So I connected my external HDD via usb and installed OSX on there so that I could at least read my textbooks (pdfs) while trying to solve the issue. Even with this setup, though, I am having issues where the computer will randomly freeze and I am forced to shut it down by holding the power button. I'm afraid that by doing this I am going to break it, and I have had to many, many times trying to get this fixed.
What do you think might be wrong with my laptop? How can I go about solving it? I do not have AppleCare, and would prefer to fix the issue myself instead of paying Apple some ridiculous price.
Thank you.
My friend told me that it was probably my HDD, and I could replace it with a SSD which would fix these problems and greatly increase the speed of my computer. So I ordered one and installed it, but the SSD was not recognized by disk utility. So I connected my external HDD via usb and installed OSX on there so that I could at least read my textbooks (pdfs) while trying to solve the issue. Even with this setup, though, I am having issues where the computer will randomly freeze and I am forced to shut it down by holding the power button. I'm afraid that by doing this I am going to break it, and I have had to many, many times trying to get this fixed.
What do you think might be wrong with my laptop? How can I go about solving it? I do not have AppleCare, and would prefer to fix the issue myself instead of paying Apple some ridiculous price.
Thank you.