Grey Screen, Spinning Wheel of Death

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I've tried nearly everything, SMC, PRAM, Reinstall, run every report possible but I cannot login into my Mid 2009 MBP.

I have reinstalled Mavericks for the second time just now and it is hung on a grey screen.

I can boot up into OSX Utilities mode.

I cannot boot up into safe mode.

This all started with the appearance of the Spinning Wheel of Death and progressed to Grey Screens when rebooting.

At first I thought it was lack of disk space so I connected to my HDD in Target mode and cleared things up so I have 30gigs free.

How do I identify what the problem is so I can fix it?
 

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I'm assuming you mean you can boot to "recovery mode" not utilities mode. While in recovery select Disk Utility from utilities and run a verify on your hard drive. It sounds like your hard drive may have problems. Have you been making backups? Let us know the results of the hard drive verify.
 
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Hey thanks for your reply. Yes. The first thing I did was run the disk utility and it comes back with a Verified disk report.

I will shortly put OSX onto a memory stick and try and run off that. To see if we can narrow things down a bit.
 
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I ran EtreCheck and got this....

Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
/System/Library/Extensions
[not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecDriverCore (5.2.4 - SDK 10.4) [Click for support]

/System/Library/Extensions/Seagate Storage Driver.kext/Contents/PlugIns
[not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecLeafDriver_10_4 (5.2.4 - SDK 10.4) [Click for support]
[not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecLeafDriver_10_5 (5.2.4 - SDK 10.5) [Click for support]
[not loaded] com.seagate.driver.SeagateDriveIcons (5.2.4 - SDK 10.4) [Click for support]

any thoughts?
 

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More information is needed. Are you using an external Seagate hard drive and did you load software that came with the drive, perhaps for backup? The reason I ask is apparently a kernel extension (kext) was loaded for the Seagate but now you're getting errors that the driver is not loading.
 

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