Anybody good with Macs?

[Pudgey51]

So I bought my iMac back in September 2008. Worked flawlessly for years, survived three big moves, kept on ticking. Streamed the Super Bowl in 2012, wouldn't shut down. Shut it down the wrong way (i know stupid) and then it wouldn't start up again. Was told the hard drive was fried (?) had it replaced, 2 years later, same problem, won't start up, grey screen spinning wheel. Apple Store says the hard drive(or something relating to it) is shot. The computer is too old to get parts from Apple so I'm holding onto it hoping I can someone pull all my files off.

My question is, should I worry that something contained within my files is the cause for the problem and should be hesitant of trying to port over my files to a new device? Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance!

[going_home]

Big Macs and Thick Burgers......

[smilestyler]

Do you have anything in iCloud? There should be nothing malicious in there that would go onto your new device.

What do the folks at apple suggest?

[Pudgey51]

I don't use the cloud, unfortunately. The folks at Apple suggested a new hard drive and porting over any files that can be salvaged but didn't say whether it was virus caused or defect caused

[Bxmarg]

A while a go the hard drive on my iMac went bad. There was a power outage and I afterwards it would mount But then a few days or sometimes hours latter would freeze up. Anyways I replaced the hard drive and used time machine to put things back in order.

But it sounds like a hardware issue. So first try running disk repair (in the applications\utilities folder). Then repair your permissions (also done from disk repair).

Other thing to try is see if you have a memory leak. Fire up activity monitor (also utilities folder) and see if anything is slowly draining your memory to zip.

[Pudgey51]

A while a go the hard drive on my iMac went bad. There was a power outage and I afterwards it would mount But then a few days or sometimes hours latter would freeze up. Anyways I replaced the hard drive and used time machine to put things back in order.

But it sounds like a hardware issue. So first try running disk repair (in the applications\utilities folder). Then repair your permissions (also done from disk repair).

Other thing to try is see if you have a memory leak. Fire up activity monitor (also utilities folder) and see if anything is slowly draining your memory to zip.

Can't start up the computer, anytime I do I get a grey screen with a spinning circle of grey-white lines. I even tried the start up holding down command or whatever and got nothing. Apple Genius Bar tried doing the same thing and that's where they got the harddrive hardware issue. Could not get anything to open on the Mac....