Black screen after PRAM reset

So, the problem started when the hard drive broke. I replaced it with old SSD previously used in my other Windows computer. I did not format it so when booting iMac it automatically started configuring Windows 10. That was strange, I shut it down and booted from BIOS, but the system couldn’t find my flash drive with Mac OS image on it (which obviously was there). I didn’t know what the problem was about, so I let the Windows load up, it worked fine. After that I read on some forum that if having a problem of “iMac doesn’t see flash drive with OS image” I should try resetting PRAM with cmd+Option+P+R shortcut, which resulted with expected reload, however after booting up the screen is totally black. There’s Mac sound of booting, there’s keyboard lighting, however the screen is totally black. I tried cmd+R but it didn’t work. Any ideas how to possibly fix this issue?

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Posted on Dec 6, 2021 7:14 AM

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Dec 8, 2021 10:27 PM in response to SeaPapp

Hello!

Im using 21.5 inch mid 2011 iMac (2,7 GHz Intel Core i5, AMD Radeon HD 6770M 550 Mb), at the moment of HDD break up installed OS was OS X El Capitan, so I tried installing same one. I don't have second Mac, so I had to use application called TransMac to prepare my flash drive.

I tried pressing options key, still nothing happening, totally black screen. I can't even tell if I am in the boot manager or not, cause there's no visible/sound indication of that.

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