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Pretty sure my hard drive died.
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<blockquote data-quote="GK27V6" data-source="post: 1010387" data-attributes="member: 61812"><p>Hey guys</p><p></p><p>So for the last month or two my MacBook has been running slugglish, with full description in my thread about it here: <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/188915-mac-running-sluggish-hard-drive-problem.html" target="_blank">http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/188915-mac-running-sluggish-hard-drive-problem.html</a></p><p></p><p>Anyway, two nights ago my Mac would not boot. I turn it on and it's stuck at the white screen. I tried holing down option during startup and nether of my partitions showed up so I'm 99.9% sure my Seagate Momentus 500GB @7200RPM drive is dead. I had approx. 180GB free on that drive. Then I tried booting from CD (SL disc) by holding down "C" and nothing happened. Is there some other button I have to hold?</p><p></p><p>I just wanna ask you guys if this is for the hard drive, and not possibly any other problem.</p><p></p><p>The only thing I can think of doin right now is to check if I still have warranty left on my drive (bought/installed it nine months ago), and if not then go buy a new drive. If I have to buy a new drive, I wanna do a fresh clean install of SL. Can I do this, and then use Migration Assistant to transfer most of my data back? I wanna do it this way rather than a restore because I figured I should not have sooo many apps and all that crap on my drive anyway. Also I've had several problems with the OS before (kernal panics, etc. had to reinstall OS twice now in the 1.5years I owned my Mac) so I don't wanna restore those potential problems again lol. </p><p></p><p>Luckily I have my stuff backed up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GK27V6, post: 1010387, member: 61812"] Hey guys So for the last month or two my MacBook has been running slugglish, with full description in my thread about it here: [url]http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/188915-mac-running-sluggish-hard-drive-problem.html[/url] Anyway, two nights ago my Mac would not boot. I turn it on and it's stuck at the white screen. I tried holing down option during startup and nether of my partitions showed up so I'm 99.9% sure my Seagate Momentus 500GB @7200RPM drive is dead. I had approx. 180GB free on that drive. Then I tried booting from CD (SL disc) by holding down "C" and nothing happened. Is there some other button I have to hold? I just wanna ask you guys if this is for the hard drive, and not possibly any other problem. The only thing I can think of doin right now is to check if I still have warranty left on my drive (bought/installed it nine months ago), and if not then go buy a new drive. If I have to buy a new drive, I wanna do a fresh clean install of SL. Can I do this, and then use Migration Assistant to transfer most of my data back? I wanna do it this way rather than a restore because I figured I should not have sooo many apps and all that crap on my drive anyway. Also I've had several problems with the OS before (kernal panics, etc. had to reinstall OS twice now in the 1.5years I owned my Mac) so I don't wanna restore those potential problems again lol. Luckily I have my stuff backed up. [/QUOTE]
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