Hard Drive Back-Up
I purchased my Macbook Pro in late 2008. I have had no trouble with it at all until about a month ago. I was running on the Lion OS X (10.4). It is a 13" unibody, without the battery door.
Recently, it was seriously lagging. Rainbow wheel popping up all the time. I restarted it and it came up fine, until one day it had been loading for what seemed like forever, I tried to restart and I could not get it past the grey startup screen. I have used SEVERAL tutorials. Once and only once was I able to get it to start up in safemode, it crashed again. So I did fsck booting in a single user mode, tried to reinstall my OS (with the Snow Leopard disk that came with)
But, nothing helps. I finally saw through disk utility (the only menu I can get to) that my S.M.A.R.T. disk was failing. After doing some research, I learned that meant I needed a new harddrive.
I am not opposed to buying a new harddrive. I have searched for some. I have read reviews. My problem lies now in that I was stupid and never bought an external harddrive. So, ALL of my files, music, pictures are on my laptop and I don't see any way to get them off if I can't boot in safemode to now transfer them.
Anyone out there have any advice or tips? Is there anything I can even do?
Also anyone have any good advice about what harddrive to buy?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4)