Last night I was watching news clips on my 2011 17” MacBook Pro when the operating system started to “stick”, with the “wheel of death” slowing down activity. Then the laptop just died.
It took several attempts pushing the power button to get it to start up, but when loading the indicator bar would get half way along and then the device would just “die” and shut down again.
I can start it in Revovery mode but cannot reload the O/S. All attempts end in an “unauthorised action” message.
I managed to start it once in Safe Mode but did not take it any further when the box asking to change the password came up, trying recovery mode again. Further attempts at loading Safe Mode simply go right to normal startup mode.
I suspect that my hard drive has died

It has been some time since my last Time Machine backup so if I am in for a new hard drive I will have least a considerable amount of lost and importante-mails. Documents etc will have been stored on my iCloud backup (I hope).
Any suggestions of other than a fried hard drive?
It took several attempts pushing the power button to get it to start up, but when loading the indicator bar would get half way along and then the device would just “die” and shut down again.
I can start it in Revovery mode but cannot reload the O/S. All attempts end in an “unauthorised action” message.
I managed to start it once in Safe Mode but did not take it any further when the box asking to change the password came up, trying recovery mode again. Further attempts at loading Safe Mode simply go right to normal startup mode.
I suspect that my hard drive has died


It has been some time since my last Time Machine backup so if I am in for a new hard drive I will have least a considerable amount of lost and importante-mails. Documents etc will have been stored on my iCloud backup (I hope).
Any suggestions of other than a fried hard drive?
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