My mac has been playing up for a while but its 4 years old so I figured that was normal. It crashed more and sometimes the screen wouldnt go on when it booted. Now it wont go past the gray apple screen, it just shuts itself down. It wont start in safe mode. Fsck is returning an problem with catalogue tree B and hasnt fixed it after more tries than I care to remember. When I do fsck_hfs r dev/disk it says its rebuilding catalogue b tree but it says it could not be repaired. Fsck-hfs-d got a bad super block problem. Fsck b32 goes back to b tree problem.
It wont load techtool off the apple care disk. It will load hardware check off the OS disk and says everything is fine but it wont load from the OS disk- it sounds like it is trying but then ejects the disk and goes to grey screen. When I press option as I turn it on it doesnt show up the disk. I cant afford to get Disk Warrior.
What other options am I left with? Can I reformat without getting the OS disk to work? I'm thinking I may as well buy a new harddrive then once I have that installed see if I can save anything off the old one.
edit: I ran hardware test again, this time it says my hardrive has an error
It wont load techtool off the apple care disk. It will load hardware check off the OS disk and says everything is fine but it wont load from the OS disk- it sounds like it is trying but then ejects the disk and goes to grey screen. When I press option as I turn it on it doesnt show up the disk. I cant afford to get Disk Warrior.
What other options am I left with? Can I reformat without getting the OS disk to work? I'm thinking I may as well buy a new harddrive then once I have that installed see if I can save anything off the old one.
edit: I ran hardware test again, this time it says my hardrive has an error
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