Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this. Anyway I am aware this problem is entirely my fault however whats done is done and I am looking for a way if possible to fix my Macbook OS X 10.5. The problem started regrettably while playing World of Warcraft on my laptop. Out of a moment of frustration I banged on my laptop roughly around the area where my hard drive is located. My computer froze and whenever i restarted it would always be stuck on the loading screen with the gray apple in the middle.
I held down the option key while starting my computer and started it up with the install disk and managed to get it running again, however, unlike before it was now painfully slow on any task i tried to perform.
Next i used the repair permissions option under utilities and restarted my computer holding down "c" using the install disk and ran the "repair disk" option. After doing these two things my computer has improved slightly but is still slow and i get a lot of the pinwheel loading icon when i try to do anything on my Macbook.
Lastly i checked the memory on my laptop and made sure they where in properly and had not been banged loose during the incident.
So having said all that I am writing this to see if there is anyway to restore my computer and get it running at normal speed again. Is it possible there is damage to my hard drive that is not fixable? I also ran a S.M.A.R.T check with Onyx and everything seemed to check out okay.
Any help or insight on this would be greatly appreciated and I apologize for such a long post. Thank you.
I held down the option key while starting my computer and started it up with the install disk and managed to get it running again, however, unlike before it was now painfully slow on any task i tried to perform.
Next i used the repair permissions option under utilities and restarted my computer holding down "c" using the install disk and ran the "repair disk" option. After doing these two things my computer has improved slightly but is still slow and i get a lot of the pinwheel loading icon when i try to do anything on my Macbook.
Lastly i checked the memory on my laptop and made sure they where in properly and had not been banged loose during the incident.
So having said all that I am writing this to see if there is anyway to restore my computer and get it running at normal speed again. Is it possible there is damage to my hard drive that is not fixable? I also ran a S.M.A.R.T check with Onyx and everything seemed to check out okay.
Any help or insight on this would be greatly appreciated and I apologize for such a long post. Thank you.