hard drive failure

I desperately need help with an attempt to get all files copied over from a 8Tb dying hard drive. I do not know how long I have. I do know it's important to describe the drive's current status, so I will do so here: 1) Drive was starting to slow down during a copying process, now copying a...

My Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive stopped working. It was in storage for two years. I pulled out to work with an old iPhoto library. I left it plugged into my computer for a few days. Slowly it stopped working. It started taking longer and longer to do things. Then it started crashing my...

I have a mid-2011 iMac with Sierra. I tried to login this morning and it looked like it was going to work but then the graphics got all jumbled and it rebooted...then kept rebooting. Powered it down and restarted and it just got stuck on the rebooting cycle. I tried recovery mode but it would...

Something is pretty weird with my Mac these last few days (this is a Quad Core 2.8 2010/Nehalem running El Capitan 10.11.6). The last few days when I started the up the Mac, the desktop appears with all its icons on it as normal, but nothing would work. Double-clicking on an icon did nothing...

Please help!!!! I have a mid 2009 MacBook Pro and it has died on me. At first it crashed, I bought a new cable and it was fine. Then it crashed again. New hard drive. Tried booting it up. It got halfway through the bar on the loading screen and didn’t get any further. Tried restarting it...

So out of the blue my Mid 2012 Macbook Pro is not recognizing ANY hard drive. I am getting the folder with the question mark even after replacing SATA cable. Disk Utility cannot find the hard drive either. I have tried 3 different hard drives 1 of which I am currently using on a different MAC so...

Images here: http://imgur.com/a/Vs6fi Specs: MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) A1278 / 2,3 GHz Intel Core i5 / 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 / Macintosh HD / Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB I'm interested in buying a used MBP (late 2013 model), A1502, 2,8 GHz, 512 MB SSD, 8 GB RAM – is this a good choice...

hi all I purchased a second hand MacBook, it was all working fine, good condition etc, I tried to change some details and it said I needed an admin password, I asked my partner (who purchased it for me) to message the guy and get the password, being a man he decided that was too easy and...

Hey I have a problem with my macbook pro a1398. after one minute of working i get the rainbow wheel of death and even though i can move the mouse i cant click anything. I go to reboot\recovery mode and do the first aid option and it says everything is ok,but then after a minute or so one of the...

hey folks, talked with support yesterday for a few hours. Problem is, I can not get my internal drive to unmount. Upon start up, it keeps getting hung up when it shows progress bar and apple logo....itll get part way loading, then restarts.....fortunatly, I had a back up on time machine...

I have a WD external HD. When I plug it in, i get the error message: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.", with only the options to ignore or eject, NO OPTION TO INITIALIZE. It doesn't show in desktop, but it does in Disk Utility. I have no options to verify or repair the...

Not sure what happened but my MBP pro won't boot up. I know I am going to have to install the OS again but if I pulled the hard drive out and loaded it into an enclosure would I be able to potential grab files through USB on another mac? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Image from Disk Utility

My 2008 baby's hard drive failed today! That's the first time I've experienced hard drive failure. My first iMac from 2001 is still going strong, though I haven't used it for years. I replaced it with the 3.06 top of the range from early 2008 (24"). It's been a great machine. Today, pretty well...