HARD drive failure... What should I do?

MacBook worked extremely slow lately. Recently partitioned. Could not even restart it properly for a while. Finally managed to do start on windows. Used for a while to see the errors. BAM "disk drive is failed, please backup and rese your files or you may lose everything" or something like that. My hard drive is made for? I had my laptop for? I am very scared. I don't know what to do.

"Any player can fail at any time." It's why we have trusted backups.

If you don't have a backup of confidence, that should be your priority. Buy yourself a car two or three times the size of what to save. It may need to be a desktop class player. This drive doesn't have to be fast to a backup drive - USB - 2 works perfectly.

Try to make a Time Machine backup of your drive. In case of failure, do not forget that more 350 000 files on this disk are Mac OS X, which does NOT change and can be completely recreated, intact, by a re - install on a new drive.

Get a new drive that can replace your current internal drive, but do not place it inside your Mac again. Get an external enclosure and install Mac OS X on the new drive in the external case. Start on this and you can have a job (but not yet portable) Mac and can use all of his power to save or backup your files, or whatever it is you do.

Once you are satisfied of this, THEN do the surgery to move the new disk inside your Mac and resume the portability.

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