Macbook pro crashed a week ago, now it's working fine, is it the hard drive that's failing?
First, it's a mid-2009 13 inch Macbook Pro, 160gb, right now 14 gb free, battery was replaced with new one 4 months ago so it's not that. A week ago, my macbook just stopped responding. It froze, and when I shut it down manually and then rebooted, it kept freezing as soon as I opened an app. Usually I woulld try to open either Chrome or MS Word. It just color-wheeled everything. Even Finder. I couldn't do anything at all, which was horrible cause I neeeded to turn in a homework final, and i couldn't even copy it to an external memory. I reset the pram, went in through safe mode, single-user mode, repaired the disk with fsck, etc. Nothing was working. Finally, by some miracle, I logged in through safe mode, it let me copy the file I needed (from MS Word if it matters) into the memory, and then I just shut it down. I figured it was the hard drive finally giving up on me, so I just left it. Now, a week later, decided to turn it on to see if it worked, and lo and behold, it does. I'm typing this on it as it is. Still, I'm scared it's gonna crash again, so I'm looking for a new hard drive (and back-up drive) to install it before that happens. Before though, I want to make sure its the hard drive that's the problem. Has anyone had anything similar happen? What was the problem?
160 gb is a small drive and yours is pretty full, I would get a external drive and back up ASAP, so if it does fail you still have your data. When a drive gets that full it has to do a lot off work searching. It could also be a logic board problem.
Get a back up dive, with drives it's not if it will, but rather when it will fail.
Bring it in and have it evaliuted, the diagnosis is free.
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