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Spinning ball, hard drive, macbook pro

Dear Experts

I have mid 2009 Macbook pro (2.66 Ghz). I am frequently running into spinning ball that freezes my mac even for opening Safari, iPhoto etc. I am user of CPU demending softwares. Here is what I did till now

1. Free space on HDD is 78 GB (out of 320 GB HDD)

2. Ran Disk utility --> verified.

3. SMART status is OK.
4. Fixed all permissions.

5. Ran disk tool pro--> SMART status OK

6. Fixed bad alias

7. Removed all cache, junk, trash with CleanMyMac.


However, problems is persisted. I ran a bad sector check on disk tool pro and it shows all time that scan for bad sectors is failed while rest of the tests passed. I wonder whether my HDD is failing or what? I have already backed up on Time Machine.


Any experts has comments/suggestions? That will be of great help.


Thanks

Sai

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), 2.66 GHz, 350GB HDD

Posted on Jun 28, 2013 1:21 AM

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Spinning ball, hard drive, macbook pro

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