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Alright so I was using my mbp perfectly fine for about three years and not once have I had any issues other than to do with the charger. It always worked like new and was never slow. I came back from school today and when I opened it up (I usually have it on sleep) it gave me the spinning wheel and it pretty much froze. I then had no option other than a force shut down since I waited for so long. I read around on the forums and people told me to reset my smc/pram which I did do and nothing really changed. After a while I started getting the flashing fold icon so I decided to boot from the mac osx installation disc. When I did that and went to disk utility to repair my drive my hard drive was not shown as an option, so I just went outside and relaxed with some friends and after I came back home I booted up my mac and it surprisingly booted up perfectly but then again it had the spinning wheel but this time my mac did not freeze but was really slow so then I tried to reinstall osx and I select my hard drive and it was almost done but the time remaining said -1 minutes remaining after it had finished. So I again had to force shut down. I tried to boot from my intallation disc again to see if I can repair my drive but this time I heard nothing but the cd spinning for a bit then the clicking sound and eventually the disc automatically ejects and I am greeted with the folder icon. I opened up my MacBook and took out the hard drive and plugged it back in and then it worked but had the spinning wheel and no way was I going to live with that so I force shut down my Mac and ever since then I can't boot from cd at all. However when I do turn on my mac and put my hand on my hard drive I can fell it working. What is the problem here? Is it a hard drive failure? Is it a logic board failure? Is it the cable connecting the hard drive to the logic board that is failing?( highly doubt that since it doesn't even boot off cd)
Thanks guys in advance and I know it is a long read but I would really appreciate some help.

Anyone?

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