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First of all, I'm working with a 2010 MBP Unibody. It has Lion 10.7.4 installed.
A month ago, I replaced the internal drive with a Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid SSD drive. About two weeks later, I noticed the computer was acting up - programs were freezing randomly, that sort of thing. Then one night I turned it on and it just sat at the spinning startup icon for hours. I turned it off, turned it back on, then I got a folder with a question mark.
The next day, I played with booting into verbose mode, and also repairing permissions with the system disc. I got the system booted, but even stranger things were happening now - files were not writable, mail accounts couldn't be read, Google Chrome profile wasn't readable. And, at this point permission repairing was no longer working for some reason.
After a ton of research, I was told this could be either A) my drive failing or B) the system permissions got completely screwed beyond repair. I decided the best and fastest plan (I'm a gigging musician who uses this laptop frequently) was to replace the drive with a new one (not a Hybrid this time, I just went on Newegg and found the most recommended 750gb 7200rpm drive). Fresh system install.
Fast forward to last night - same EXACT thing happened - programs start freezing, then the startup taking forever, and now the question mark.
What is going on? Is my motherboard screwed up? I am very close to ordering the new Retina laptop now, but I need to be able to sell this one if I don't keep it.
A month ago, I replaced the internal drive with a Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid SSD drive. About two weeks later, I noticed the computer was acting up - programs were freezing randomly, that sort of thing. Then one night I turned it on and it just sat at the spinning startup icon for hours. I turned it off, turned it back on, then I got a folder with a question mark.
The next day, I played with booting into verbose mode, and also repairing permissions with the system disc. I got the system booted, but even stranger things were happening now - files were not writable, mail accounts couldn't be read, Google Chrome profile wasn't readable. And, at this point permission repairing was no longer working for some reason.
After a ton of research, I was told this could be either A) my drive failing or B) the system permissions got completely screwed beyond repair. I decided the best and fastest plan (I'm a gigging musician who uses this laptop frequently) was to replace the drive with a new one (not a Hybrid this time, I just went on Newegg and found the most recommended 750gb 7200rpm drive). Fresh system install.
Fast forward to last night - same EXACT thing happened - programs start freezing, then the startup taking forever, and now the question mark.
What is going on? Is my motherboard screwed up? I am very close to ordering the new Retina laptop now, but I need to be able to sell this one if I don't keep it.
