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Imac start up disk

I am unable to boot up my iMac 2012. Disk utility shows that I have an Apple disk image with mac os base system. There is no mac os HDD showing. Unable to use erase or restore on disk utility. I have tried internet recovery but still unable to boot up iMac. Please advise. Thanks

iMac 27″, OS X 10.10

Posted on Sep 8, 2021 1:03 AM

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Posted on Sep 8, 2021 1:16 AM

Thank you.


It appears your internal drive has failed. If this is a 2012 or newer iMac, you could purchase an external SSD and set it as your startup disk: How to Setup and Use an External SSD as y… - Apple Community. Apple will not repair this iMac, unfortunately.


You could also consider a new Mac.


Best of luck!


Jack

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Imac start up disk

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