MacBook won't boot...

[Phate]

Hi all,

My trusty 2008 ali MacBook won't boot up - it's been used nearly everyday since I've had it but I was browsing the net a moment ago and it just froze on me...rebooted it and now it's stuck on the apple spinning grey circle of doom

Tried resetting the PRAM I'm open to suggestions but my suspicions are duff hard drive :/

Thoughts welcome!
Jake

 

[squerble]

Seems like it could just be a bad sector on the drive because it's found the OS (hence the apple) and is starting to load it (spinning gear).


Have you tried to boot in single user mode and do an fsck?

 

[Phate]

Seems like it could just be a bad sector on the drive because it's found the OS (hence the apple) and is starting to load it (spinning gear).


Have you tried to boot in single user mode and do an fsck?

Good thinking, running that now

Got a mate heading over with a sata to usb converter, I don't mind reloading it or replacing the drive, but its got some client data on there I need

 

[Phate]

Ooh small update

"Checking volume bitmap
Volume bit map needs minor repair
checking volume information
repairing volume"

Positive

 

[Phate]

Seems like it could just be a bad sector on the drive because it's found the OS (hence the apple) and is starting to load it (spinning gear).


Have you tried to boot in single user mode and do an fsck?

You = legend. Fixed it

 

[syed2012]

Hurry !

 

[Phate]

?

 

[PardonTheWait]

I presume he means back up and get ready for the drive to fail... it's not necessarily going to fail though

 

[RichBowman]

Had an almost identical problem with mine a couple of weeks ago (2008 BlackBook) - I ended up buying a new hard drive (though that seemed to have a bit of an issue...)

Have kept the new on in, and have the original in an external enclosure. Wasn't much of an issue in the end, thanks to Time machine, and £40 on a new (and bigger) drive.

Glad your problem seems to have been sorted out speedily!

Rich