Hi,
Been trying to browse various threads on here for anyone who’s had a similar issue and had it resolved already and couldn’t find anything.
About 10 days ago or so I was using my computer normally when suddenly it froze and wouldn’t let me move the mouse, type, etc. so I manually shut it down thinking I could restart. Once I did, I got the continual spinning circle on the startup screen until the Apple logo changed to a circle with a line thru it.
There was a similar situation thread in the desktop section that I went through and tried following all the solutions people had found in there: running disk utility (no problems come up) and then when I try to reinstall OS X (Mid-2010 MBP), it only gives me Recovery HD as my option to install OS X (no Mac HD option) and the Recovery HD is locked.
After some discussion there it was concluded that the hard drive likely died (I connected an external hd and tried installing OS X on there and it worked perfectly fine) and would need replacement, which I’m fine with doing.
When running disk utility on “Macintosh HD”, verify/repair disk on that option, gave the following error:
I mainly care about getting several files off my computer, and after that have no problem wiping it clean and starting it like factory settings .. from what little I understand, it seemed like most solutions people found in that thread required wiping all data beforehand (I don’t have a backup to go back on) and so was wondering if there’s a solution where that isn’t necessary (or at least let’s you into the computer long enough to pull files off it? Before having to wipe it clean)
I found the program MacDriver online, so got that and was able to just connect my (old) harddrive to another computer and pull off about 80% of files.
A lot of the larger size files, I wasn’t able to bc it would give me an error that the said the file location was incorrect and no longer in that place that it was.... (though from appearances it was??)
I was looking at buying a new HD and was told that after installing that it may bring the computer back to being usable and can reinstall OS X on it. I went to buy one and try this out but was talked out of it from the salesperson who said I can’t put a 1 TB drive in that older version of computer, and the max would be 500GB ?? .. which seemed odd because from what everything I’ve seen online, people buy the 250GB one and upgrade it however they want?
Been trying to browse various threads on here for anyone who’s had a similar issue and had it resolved already and couldn’t find anything.
About 10 days ago or so I was using my computer normally when suddenly it froze and wouldn’t let me move the mouse, type, etc. so I manually shut it down thinking I could restart. Once I did, I got the continual spinning circle on the startup screen until the Apple logo changed to a circle with a line thru it.
There was a similar situation thread in the desktop section that I went through and tried following all the solutions people had found in there: running disk utility (no problems come up) and then when I try to reinstall OS X (Mid-2010 MBP), it only gives me Recovery HD as my option to install OS X (no Mac HD option) and the Recovery HD is locked.
After some discussion there it was concluded that the hard drive likely died (I connected an external hd and tried installing OS X on there and it worked perfectly fine) and would need replacement, which I’m fine with doing.
When running disk utility on “Macintosh HD”, verify/repair disk on that option, gave the following error:
I mainly care about getting several files off my computer, and after that have no problem wiping it clean and starting it like factory settings .. from what little I understand, it seemed like most solutions people found in that thread required wiping all data beforehand (I don’t have a backup to go back on) and so was wondering if there’s a solution where that isn’t necessary (or at least let’s you into the computer long enough to pull files off it? Before having to wipe it clean)
I found the program MacDriver online, so got that and was able to just connect my (old) harddrive to another computer and pull off about 80% of files.
A lot of the larger size files, I wasn’t able to bc it would give me an error that the said the file location was incorrect and no longer in that place that it was.... (though from appearances it was??)
I was looking at buying a new HD and was told that after installing that it may bring the computer back to being usable and can reinstall OS X on it. I went to buy one and try this out but was talked out of it from the salesperson who said I can’t put a 1 TB drive in that older version of computer, and the max would be 500GB ?? .. which seemed odd because from what everything I’ve seen online, people buy the 250GB one and upgrade it however they want?
