Well, I think my HDD is dead, but I wanted to get second opinion(s).
So far: macbook running 10.7 - would not wake from sleep, spinning beachball. Did a hard shutdown by holding down the power button. Rebooted, got the blue folder icon with the (?) inside.
Brought up the startup menu by holding down option key. The primary volume and the emergency partition appear. Selecting the primary volume as the boot-up system results in the dreaded circle-slash mark (prohibitory mark). Trying to boot up in safe mode using the primary volume also produces the prohibitory mark.
When selecting the emergency partition I left it running for 10 minutes, but it just hangs on the Apple logo with the spinning gear. No go.
I burned OS X 10.7 to a DVD and was able to boot up from it, but under Disk Utility the only volumes that show up are the DVD in the Superdrive and something that says "disk2" and is about 1.5 gigs (emergency partition?). The HDD doesn't appear. I tried to do a system restore but my HDD doesn't show up under the places I can install.
Opinions? Thanks in advance.
So far: macbook running 10.7 - would not wake from sleep, spinning beachball. Did a hard shutdown by holding down the power button. Rebooted, got the blue folder icon with the (?) inside.
Brought up the startup menu by holding down option key. The primary volume and the emergency partition appear. Selecting the primary volume as the boot-up system results in the dreaded circle-slash mark (prohibitory mark). Trying to boot up in safe mode using the primary volume also produces the prohibitory mark.
When selecting the emergency partition I left it running for 10 minutes, but it just hangs on the Apple logo with the spinning gear. No go.
I burned OS X 10.7 to a DVD and was able to boot up from it, but under Disk Utility the only volumes that show up are the DVD in the Superdrive and something that says "disk2" and is about 1.5 gigs (emergency partition?). The HDD doesn't appear. I tried to do a system restore but my HDD doesn't show up under the places I can install.
Opinions? Thanks in advance.