Strange goings on with my MBP

ronnie3585

I have a mid 2009 MBP running Mavericks.

On Saturday while browsing the web it froze solid. After 7 years of owning Macs it was the first time something like this had happened to me. I held down the power button until it knocked off. When I restarted it immediately booted into the Disk Utility, I verified and repaired permissions and restarted. On restart it immediately went to the grey screen, the Apple logo and the spinning gear. The spinning gear stopped and I was left with the grey logo screen, it would go no further.

I tried a boot into Safe Mode and reset the NVRAM/PRAM but to no avail. I then booted back into the Disk Utility and verified the disk. After it ran it said the HD was fine and there were no faults. I did a repair anyway and rebooted, but it was the same as above - grey screen with logo and no further.

Again, back into the Disk Utility and I restored from a backup. Thankfully this worked and the system was fully restored. However, since the restore it's been running quite slow and sluggish. I ran Sophos Anti-Virus and there was nothing detected.

Has anyone had any experience of this? Is my HD on the way out?

FourFourRED

Could be a good time for you to swap your HD out for an SSD. Will be a big improvement.

ronnie3585

Aodhagan wrote: »

Could be a good time for you to swap your HD out for an SSD. Will be a big improvement.

Thanks. Is this a difficult job? I changed the HD in my old Mac (the black one) and it was very straight forward.

FourFourRED

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Thanks. Is this a difficult job? I changed the HD in my old Mac (the black one) and it was very straight forward.

Yeah it's an easy procedure especially when you have done it before. You will never want to go back to a standard HD again.

I have the 2011 MacBook Pro with Samsung 840 SSD and I find my girlfriends 2013 iMac frustrating because of the disk speed.

Piliger

Any sign of a rhythmical ticking sound from the HD ?

scruff monkey

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Thanks. Is this a difficult job? I changed the HD in my old Mac (the black one) and it was very straight forward.

It's very easy to do and if you are feeling adventurous and have stopped using the superdrive and optical media, then it's possible to swap it out also for a caddy to hold a secondary ssd. Did it in a 13" mid 2009 MPB, makes life so much better, I keep my parallels images on the secondary SSD

ronnie3585

Piliger wrote: »

Any sign of a rhythmical ticking sound from the HD ?

No, no ticking or clicking from the HD thankfully. It's been running fine the last two days, but I think I'll look into getting a SSD at this stage. Pity my laptop isn't SATA3 compatible.

TBi

I've an OCZ Vertex 2 240GB if you are interested. The original one died so i got a replacement. It's still in the packaging.

Piliger

I have no specific tech advice to offer ... but I would seriously advise that you diagnose the actual problem before shelling out on stuff.