iMac 2008 will not start.

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iMac 2008 will not start.

Hello.

I have an iMac from 2008. I haven't used it in 4-5 years. I started it a couple of weeks ago. It worked fine. But it wanted to run some updates. Something happened and it got stuck. White screen for 2 days.

I turned it off and started it again. Same result. White screen. I tried to start Disk Utility. But nothing happened.

I concluded it was the hard drive and bought a Samsung 860 SSD and replaced it.

When i started the iMac I got a flashing folder with a question mark.

I tried restarting it with Command+R. But Disk Utility will not start. I get the mouse pointer. And I can move it. But no Disk Utility. I tried different commands with the same result.

Ant suggestions?

Thanks.

Posted on Jun 25, 2020 3:30 PM

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HWTech

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Jun 25, 2020 4:59 PM in response to Helgesd

You will need to create a bootable macOS USB installer using these instructions:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372

You will need access to another Mac which is compatible with 10.11 El Capitan in order to extract the installer from the .dmg file downloaded. Once you boot the installer you will need to use Disk Utility to erase the SSD as GUID partition and MacOS Extended (Journaled).

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496

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