Hi everyone,
I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I thought it could be a good idea as there are many smart people around here and I've been given a lot of help in these forums.
I have a 13" Macbook that I bought 3 years ago, never had a problem of any kind with it. I made a partition on the hard drive almost as soon as I bought it so I could use both MAC OS and Windows through Parallels Desktop or Boot Camp. Everything was fine, until last week. I was using my Mac (Snow Leopard), just doing some homework, only Safari and Pages being running, and suddenly my computer started to run SLOW AS HELL, it even started to freeze! I shut it down and turn it back on, just to find out that everything was slow again and the computer took around 5 minutes to start up (that's really a lot considering how fast the computer normally starts up). I had to shut it back down, and the next time I tried to turn it on, MAC OS won't start! I do hear that clicking sound, so the computer does mount the drive and starts running it, but it just stays on the gray screen with the apple logo and a small gray bar that starts filling itself, but constantly returns to 0 and starts again. I've tried many times to make it start and I can't do it, it just stays on this screen but I can hear the fan working as normal.
I initially thought that the hard drive could've died, but I tried to start my computer on Windows by using Boot Camp (by pressing Option as soon as I turned on the computer) and WINDOWS WORKS AS NORMAL! After some research, I think that the Mac partition got corrupted by some sort of bug or error and I can fix that by doing a reinstall of Leopard, but the problem is... How can I get my files back? Is there any way I can access them just to recover my documents?
Thanks in advance!
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