Son's MBP hard drive dying?

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graylocks wrote:
[quote=GGD]
Has he tried booting into the Recovery Partition and running Disk Utility from there? (cmd-R, or Option Key at power-on)

http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/

i love you!!!! trying it now.
The bar on the screen is the visual indication that the background process for Disk Utility is already trying to repair the disk. If that bar keeps coming back, disk utility can't fix it, but at least you will get to see the error message.