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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EndlessMac" data-source="post: 1036682" data-attributes="member: 140470">Chscag is right. If your hard drive is indeed dying reformatting isn't going to help it. Generally reformatting will help solve software issues and not hardware issues like hard drive failure. Backup your hard drive as soon as possible if you have not done so. A long boot up time doesn't necessarily mean that your hard drive is failing. Are other things running slow on your computer and do you get the rainbow spinning wheel a lot more than usual? Run the hardware tests as suggested and financially prepare for a hard drive replacement just in case.</blockquote>

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