Fried Hard Drive?

[Tricked]

Hi,

I was shutting down my mac yesterday and safari froze so I held in the power button to shut down. When I rebooted the laptop the screen was stuck on the introduction spinning gear screen. I turned it off again, inserted the original software disc and tried to boot it from that by holding in C. When I got to the installation screen it said 'searching for hard drives' to install the software onto. After a few minutes it stopped searching and I could only click 'go back'.

Does this mean my hard drive is knackered? If so how much would a replacement/repaird cost? It's less than 2 years old and for a MacBook Pro 500gb. Any advice would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks

 

[snaky69]

Hi,

I was shutting down my mac yesterday and safari froze so I held in the power button to shut down. When I rebooted the laptop the screen was stuck on the introduction spinning gear screen. I turned it off again, inserted the original software disc and tried to boot it from that by holding in C. When I got to the installation screen it said 'searching for hard drives' to install the software onto. After a few minutes it stopped searching and I could only click 'go back'.

Does this mean my hard drive is knackered? If so how much would a replacement/repaird cost? It's less than 2 years old and for a MacBook Pro 500gb. Any advice would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks

Possible. Insert your OS X disc and press D on startup, run the long diagnosis. See what comes up.

Hard drives are a dime a dozen these days, you can pick another up for pretty cheap.

 

[Dark Void]

if worse comes to worst, a new 500gb hdd will cost you around $40-$60 depending on fast you want it to spin. not bad at all.