Reply #4: no, it's not the battery. it will start up [View All]

- and I can try to run disk utilities - and it runs the utility and then stops before it's done and says it cannot complete the task because of some something - I'm not trying to do it anymore. I tried multiple times and it will not work.

if I try to restart from the computer rather than the disk, the computer screen flashes black, then flashes the old face icon, then just sits there loading and loading and that's it. From prior experience, that means the hd is not available, it seems.

Before I tried to use the disk utility, the computer worked - tho, as I mentioned, it has been crashing a lot and the onyx thing said I needed to repair my start-up disk. The computer was only totally disabled AFTER I tried to run disk utilities.

I tried to re-install the OS and it won't do that, either.

(I'm using someone else's computer right now, btw.)