Do I need a new hard drive?

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I own a first generation apple macbook. I have had it for years and it never gave me problems until this week. 

Its a long story but as i was using it, the computer took a heavy blow to the far right hand corner below the keyboard, above where the hardrive is. 

It beeped and the computer froze and since then it cannot get past the gray boot up screen. Does anyone have any ideas before I buy a new hardrive and replace it?

bingolinux · Accepted Answer

try reinstalling or repairing the original operating system to it if you have the disk if that fails you need a new hard drive

Anonymous · Answer

If you can open the laptop and kinda have an idea of what you're doing check that everything's in properly, because if anything has come out with the knock, chances are it won't get past POST. (which is the grey screen you're talking about). The RAM might be under a small panel, easily accesible from under the laptop. If your hard drive or CPU for example, have come loose, well that's another matter entirely, because it's very difficult to get to those components.

Jason♫ · Answer

I would say dont waste money without being sure ,take it to repair shop..and let them tell you what exactly went wrong....i had similar kinda problem,from the shop ,they told me my ram gone out...

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