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Okay, for those interested, I replaced the
hard drive this afternoon.

The Macbook Pro is working perfectly.

So, it was a damaged hard drive as many
of you suspected.

Thanks again for the help you provided me.
 
Cool! I was reading along, and very curious how it would all come out in the end, so thanks for posting back. Pretty easy/cheap fix and maybe you even got an improved hard drive out of the deal (not that I'm recommending dropping the computer - ugh!).
 
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