OMG! iMac startup with apple logo then it changed to a cancel logo!!!

[saiyukicloud]

Today just woke up and turned on my iMac. It started with apple logo then I saw a cancel logo which shocked me.. Help!!!

 

[mac2x]

...so did it boot up, or not?

 

[GimmeSlack12]

You try restarting? It happening over and over again, or just a one time thing? Get out your backup DVD's and boot from those and run Disk Utility.

 

[saiyukicloud]

You can hear the boot up sound and the logo is there just that it's stuck with the dumb icon

 

[HLdan]

Sounds very much like your hard drive is failing.

 

[saiyukicloud]

Omg my mac hard drive can fail??? My external HD 1gb just died on me...

 

[saiyukicloud]

Yes!!! My mac finally startup up and I can access all my stuff after using disk utility.... I hope it doesn't screw up again...

 

[Shotgun OS]

I would still recommend backing up your hard drive.

 

[saiyukicloud]

Yea gonna rush off o get a 1tb hard drive... Any1 have something to recommend?

 

[zerostar]

I would get a Western Digital Black 1TB or the Segate 7200.12 Both nice drives.

I think the WD is a little faster, I run that in my iMac after my drive died. It is a 24" iMac 2.8GHz Core2Duo model.

 

[SolRayz]

+1 for the WD Black