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Not sure what's going on with my macbook
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<blockquote data-quote="Justlax" data-source="post: 1240242" data-attributes="member: 202406"><p>Yesterday my MacBook completely froze up. All I could do was move the mouse around. I couldn't click anything or force quit. I had to hold down the power button to restart and when the computer tried to boot up it couldn't. It would stay at the apple logo with the spinner for awhile before trying to restart on its own.</p><p></p><p>At this point I looked online for some solutions. I tried booting in safe mode, no luck, I can boot from the install DVD and when I used disk utility on the HD I get something about a node error. This is where it gets really strange though.</p><p></p><p>I decided I should just reinstall the OS because I didn't have anything on my computer worth saving. I started the reinstall and everything seemed to be working until it randomly failed and told me to try again.</p><p></p><p>I've tried multiple times with no avail, and now when I go to boot holding the option key, booting from the HD isn't even an option. </p><p></p><p>What could be wrong? Is it something simple like my HD going bad? Or something worse? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.</p><p></p><p>Please excuse spelling errors this was posted from my iPhone</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Justlax, post: 1240242, member: 202406"] Yesterday my MacBook completely froze up. All I could do was move the mouse around. I couldn't click anything or force quit. I had to hold down the power button to restart and when the computer tried to boot up it couldn't. It would stay at the apple logo with the spinner for awhile before trying to restart on its own. At this point I looked online for some solutions. I tried booting in safe mode, no luck, I can boot from the install DVD and when I used disk utility on the HD I get something about a node error. This is where it gets really strange though. I decided I should just reinstall the OS because I didn't have anything on my computer worth saving. I started the reinstall and everything seemed to be working until it randomly failed and told me to try again. I've tried multiple times with no avail, and now when I go to boot holding the option key, booting from the HD isn't even an option. What could be wrong? Is it something simple like my HD going bad? Or something worse? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Please excuse spelling errors this was posted from my iPhone [/QUOTE]
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