Q. Yesterday my Macbook that I bought in the summer of 08' has been running extremely slow. I can barely open a program with out getting the loading beach ball. I tried restarting the computer to see if it would make a difference. It didn't. So I tried starting it in SafeBoot mode. It took like 3 hours to start up and then I shut it down to get out of SafeBoot. When I went to start it again, the start sound went off and then the apple shows up. The progress gear starts spinning and then it shuts itself down? Why does this happen? My recovery disc is in florida. Could I use an iMac recovery disc to recover my computer? Help!
A. It's probably a bad hard drive, in which case a recovery disc won't help. However, if you have that iMac handy and the version on it's restore disc is equal to or later than the on that Macbook, then you could boot the Macbook into Firewire target mode and hook it up to the iMac, boot the iMac from the disc, and restore. Just make sure to run a repair from Disk Utility first. If Disk Utility can't fix it, then don't even bother trying to restore. Just get your data out.
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