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Failed Hardrive

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Leadz

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Hello. I have a macbook pro and from hours of searching through the internet, I've come to find out that I have a problem with my harddrive. When I start the computer, it gets to the grey apple with the spinning wheel, along with a gray bar loading at the bottom. Once it gets about 10% full, the computer shuts off. I have tried safe mode, running command-line utilitydisk, boot from CD-rom(took forever like 30min+ so I shut it off), just about everything. I desperately need to recover certain files from the computer that were saved to the desktop(I'm not sure if that makes it less of a problem). It's only 4 files, but they are important for a certain family member of mines and being as my funds are limited, a cost-effective solution would be appreciated.

Thank you.
 
Leadz said:
Hello. I have a macbook pro and from hours of searching through the internet, I've come to find out that I have a problem with my harddrive. When I start the computer, it gets to the grey apple with the spinning wheel, along with a gray bar loading at the bottom. Once it gets about 10% full, the computer shuts off. I have tried safe mode, running command-line utilitydisk, boot from CD-rom(took forever like 30min+ so I shut it off), just about everything. I desperately need to recover certain files from the computer that were saved to the desktop(I'm not sure if that makes it less of a problem). It's only 4 files, but they are important for a certain family member of mines and being as my funds are limited, a cost-effective solution would be appreciated.

Thank you.
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Bring it to a genius.
 
Well, for starters, Apple will not back up your data; that's something you'll have to do yourself. You can try removing the hard drive from the computer and using an enclosure/USB to SATA adapter to remove the files onto another computer.
 
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