iMac 2009 does not start

My imac has been running really slow, began with safari, so I switched browsers and that worked for a while the origin of the problem. So was slow today and I decided just to shut it down for a while and now it won't restart. When I hit the power button, it sounds and passes to the gray apple logo screen with the start-up of the below status bar, but when it comes to halfway, it just stops. I was able to start it in safe mode (?) Now command + option + r) and I was able to run disk utility, but when I ran check it or repairing, he said that player could not be parsed. I have a backup so I can certainly restore from that. but looks like it could be a more serious problem? In addition, I am running the latest operating system.

What you're saying, looks like your iMac's hard drive is seriously damaged. First of all, he started to work slowly, but now OS X will try to repair the drive each time you start, even if she can't, so your Mac goes off.

However, there is another problem: your Mac is now considered to be "obsolete", so Apple does not provide technical support for this. This means that you should look for a new hard drive for your iMac, install it and restore your Time Machine backup.

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