2011 Macbook pro wont complete bootup. Is hardrive dead?
My macbook froze today on the desktop after I logged in. I was forced to turn it off by holding the power button and now I am unable to get it to boot up. It will turn on and get about 2/3rds through the progress bar, then the progress bar and apple logo disapear and I'm left with the grey screen
I suspect the hard drive has died but I need to be sure before I fork out £100+ for a new 500gb SSD. How can i be sure this is the problem?
I've tried the usual PRAM and SMC resets, they appeared to work but still no boot up. I'm also able to hold Option at startup and choose to boot into bootcamp or the Recovery Partition, but these also greyscreen/blackscreen after attempting to boot up for a few seconds
Finally, I've tried doing a safe boot by holding Shift+CMD+V and I've recorded it on my iPhone. It shows the log and cuts out at the same point every time:
Is this helpful? would it be naive of me to post a full video? because I can do this if it would help diagnose my hard drive as dead
Thsnk, Ben
Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.1)