Macbook Pro HD Dead? What to do next?
Hi everyone,
Two days ago, when I went to turn on my MBP it went to a grey screen with a flashing question mark. I then tried to start it in safemode only to find that the harddrive was not showing up in disk utility. After reading around I suspect that my hard drive is dead. I have an external hard drive that my stuff is backed up to so I'm not worried about the loss of data, but I would love to get the information off of my MBP hard drive as I hadn't backed it up for over a month although I haven't created any substantially significant files during that period. What options do I have as far as getting my computer up and running? Should I just replace the HD? If so can i transfer data from my dead HD to the new one? Or should I just get the new one and transfer from my external HD? Just want to know what my options are besides taking it to the apple store and paying a hefty amount of money for whatever needs to be done...
MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.5)