looking for a mac wizard

[lasheno...@gmail.com]

hello makerspace folks, i thought i'd ask if anyone is or knows someone who could do some repairs/troubleshooting on my macbook pro, i could trade blacksmithing or woodwork or just cash and eternal gratitude... thanks -lashen

[Chris Stone]

I'm not a mac wizard, but a little description of the problem would help. 

[Aaron Henderson]

I've done quite a bit of work on Macbook Pro's and Macbook Air. Happy to help if you send more details.

Cheers,

Aaron

On Monday, 8 February 2016 12:32:31 UTC-8, lasheno...@gmail.com wrote:

[Kevin Battersby]

Can you describe what the miscreant bit of technology is doing or not doing?

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Regards,
Kevin

[lasheno...@gmail.com]

hey all, thanks for the responses,
when i turn it on it just gets stuck on the screen with the grey apple logo and the spinning bars. Armon has been helping me a bit, i ve tried reseting the NVRAM and also accessing the drive through disk utility, but it says that the drive is corrupted and cant be repaired. Armon has suggested that i get a new harddrive and transfer my data via a usb connector so we are working on tracking a connector cable down. but basically it seems my hard drive is dying or needs to be re formatted. this was the computer i use for audio recording and digital art so my goal is to get it back to a state where i can use it for that again.

[Aaron Henderson]

I've had a similar issue in the past with my 2008 Macbook Pro. My problem was with some failing memory chips and faulty chip slots. However, since you've found drive corruption then that's a pretty likely cause. I recently upgraded to an SSD drive and threw my old drive into an external case (http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00FZIZZDE?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00).  Here's what I put in it's place (http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00RQA6TEI?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00).  Now it's way faster. Definitely recommend it and it's super easy to swap them out. 

Aaron

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