Trouble when starts my macbook

Im having problems to start my macbook... it freezes when the apple logo appears in the screen when starts to run.. please help

Get out your restore disc, restart the computer while holding the 'C' key, and insert the disc. (If you don't get all that done quickly enough you may have to shut down and restart to get the computer to start off the disc instead of the hard drive.) After you get to the language select screen, up in the menu, find Disk Utility and run it. What you want to find out is whether the Disk Utility program sees the hard drive and, assuming it does, if it can repair it.
If DU doesn't see the drive, you are either contacting Apple for warranty repair or otherwise replacing the hard drive. If DU does see the drive and can repair it (or it needed no repair) then you'll need to reinstall the operating system. I suggest Archive & Install. If DU cannot repair the hard drive you'll need to reformat the drive and then reinstall the OS and all your programs. If you don't have a recent backup you may be able to recover data (or even recover the entire computer) with a program called DiskWarrior.

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