My mac pro will not open to the menu screen. It stops at the apple.

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Thanks of responding Kappy. When I push the on button, the computer will advance to the first gray screen with the apple in the middle, but goes no further. I'm not technical so not sure what diagnostics to perform. A friend told me that my hard drive may be bad or that I need to repartition my disc. He also mentioned that either way I would loose all of my data. This started  last week with the pinwheel of death appearing often during the day.

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