I have a mid-2009 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11.6 with a 1.5 TB hard drive. It stopped booting up correctly, crashing about halfway through startup each time. At least I have time machine backups on an external drive.
Tried to boot up in safe mode but it powers down about halfway through startup. I am able to boot off the OS X DVD (10.7 Leopard edition). I can also boot up using command R.
When using the DVD disk utility I attempted repair disk. It was finding errors and attempting to repair but as it neared the end (meter almost full) it reported rechecking disk and seemed to start over (meter back near beginning). It ran like this for 2.5 hours, possibly stuck in a loop, before I manually stopped the repair. Was this a mistake? I’ve read online of people letting the repair run as much as 15 hours before it stopped. Should I try running the repair over night?
I also tried erasing the hard drive so I could restore from backups. At first I got errors saying it could not unmount the drive. Using terminal (and google searches) I was able to get it to unmount. But then erase still failed giving me an Input/output error.
What should I try next? Should I just order a new hard drive and restore? Or is there a way to save this failing hard disk?
Any help is appeciated. Thanks
Tried to boot up in safe mode but it powers down about halfway through startup. I am able to boot off the OS X DVD (10.7 Leopard edition). I can also boot up using command R.
When using the DVD disk utility I attempted repair disk. It was finding errors and attempting to repair but as it neared the end (meter almost full) it reported rechecking disk and seemed to start over (meter back near beginning). It ran like this for 2.5 hours, possibly stuck in a loop, before I manually stopped the repair. Was this a mistake? I’ve read online of people letting the repair run as much as 15 hours before it stopped. Should I try running the repair over night?
I also tried erasing the hard drive so I could restore from backups. At first I got errors saying it could not unmount the drive. Using terminal (and google searches) I was able to get it to unmount. But then erase still failed giving me an Input/output error.
What should I try next? Should I just order a new hard drive and restore? Or is there a way to save this failing hard disk?
Any help is appeciated. Thanks