MacBook Pro - fault of HDD - what are my options?

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A week (or more) ago, I started to have problems with my MacBook Pro. As a first step, it would occur only when I start Skype, I live extreme 'delay', where nearly every program would stop responding until I have closed Skype (or so I thought). He started to get worse, and eventually I uninstalled Skype (assuming that it was the issue). I kept having problems, so I just tried a hard reset (turning point by using the power button and turn it back on).

At this point, I managed to connect and the loading bar would come, but it will break about 3/4 of the way. Stop, I mean it would stop completely, and I would wait about 15-20 minutes to see if she would continue and he wouldn't. So, I started looking for ways to solve this problem and tried to use recovery tools.

In disk utility, I had noticed that the HARD drive was completely full, all 500 GB have been exhausted. Which did not seem good at all for me, so I gritted my teeth and thought I might as well just delete because a lot of what used to take the system was old school work and projects. I went to clear the contents of the Macintosh HD, which seemed to be successful. After that, I knew I had to reinstall the OS, so I did.

Call me now, looking forward, but I was very sick in the beginning. I reinstalled the operating system in the past and had no problem before. He's fine this time, make the usual breaks in ETA ranging from 1 hour and 22 minutes to 2 hours and 11 minutes, which seemed normal to me. Then at some point, after an hour of waiting, he just stopped at "3 hours and 30 minutes". I waited about 30 minutes to see if it would continue and it would not be fair. I can remember in the past be able to stop the installation and continue it later, so I tried to do. I cancelled it and tried again, but this time my Macintosh HD drive not appear. For the most part, my boot drive just disappeared.

So, I did a hard reset, and now my MBP goes to a gray screen with a flashing folder with a '? ' in this regard. I am only able to load the recovery of Internet Options, but I am unable to do anything with "500,11 GB APPLE HARD drive". I can't verify, repair, erase, partition or format at all. I tried a lot of things without success.

So, I called Apple, and they planned a genius bar reservation which I am very upset from the Apple Store closest to me is in another State. (I could find one that I felt was easier to make, but I still won't go).

I talked to one of my friends on the issue, it is a networking / IT Major (I'm a big CS, but I don't know a lot about hardware issues). I described what happened, and he said it seems that the symptoms of hardware failure. He suggested I get an SSD and replace the HARD drive.

I'm not worried about installing the SSD or a new HARD drive, I am worried if this is still the issue, plus I'm worried about the next step after installing the SSD. How do I get the OS on the SSD drive?

Now, I'm looking just for any possible suggestion. I'll take tomorrow anyway at the Apple Store for my appointment, but it's just to be able to diagnose the problem and see how much they will be responsible to fix? My friend is not an expert in Apple products, so I ask those of you who knows more about the subject to enlighten me please if you agree it is a failed HDD delivers and if I have to buy an SSD and if so, how will come back Mac OSX on the computer?

Product sheet
MacBook Pro-mi 2012 - 13.3 "display

Storage - disk HARD 2.5 GHz - 500 GB 5400 RPM

Memory - 2.5 GHz - 4 GB DDR3 memory

-2.5 GHz - Dual-core processor Intel i5 processor

Last latest version of OS X El Capitan - (it seems to work Mavericks in the recovery of the Internet)

(If you have the Apple store do it for you, they just installed inside origin.) Here again, they have all the Organization to fall back on Apple, and they have done this so many times, they can do it in their sleep.)

How you replace a hard disk without pain, is buy an external enclosure for the new drive at the same time. You can choose a regular training of laptop computer size (2.5 inch) Rotary or a SSD in a portable format. SSD is more money, but faster and more fresh and not its no engine, it consumes less energy.

Then install Mac OS X on the new drive while it is in the enclosure, then start the drive in the enclosure. The speaker has no need to be fast or fancy.

Once you have everything as you like, and then do the "surgery" to move the new disk inside.

This makes the installation easier, because you can get the old HD to recovery to help you install the new Mac OS X and even give some time to play with the old drive if you wish.

The biggest improvement in this scheme is that it separates any problem installing and functioning of the new order of any problem of 'surgery' and makes it less complicated because you are only one step at a time.

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At the end of the process, you have an additional speaker. Then buy another, bigger drive to put it in and start using Time Machine, so you don't waste your stuff even once.

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