tried to restore the HD, the message said it couldn't be restored, it needed to be reinitialized, but disk utility doesn't see the HD anymore, so it can't iniitialize it. So how can I do?
thanks to whoever can help
anita
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Replace the HDD. If it no longer appears in Disk Utility then the drive has failed.
The drive may have failed "quit working". This happened to my mid 2007 24" iMac. My nephews now use it running off of an external hard drive.
thanks a lot for your unbelievably qui h answer (thanks to Kappy as wel).
but please I stile need help because I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "running off of an external drive":
does it mean the internal HDD has been replaced by an external one?
thanks again
anita
Yes, It is now running off of a USB seagate 500GB hard drive: but, this could be any brand
The seagate just happened to be what I had handy at the time
ok, it's a good idea, now I'll try to do the same (btw my iMac is 2007 as wel )
thank you so much
anita
It runs pretty good off of the external hard drive. I ran mine this way up until just this last fall when I bought a new Mac Mini. And, now my nephews are still using it this way.
Here is a pretty straight forward step by step for installing Mac OS on an external Hard Drive:
http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Osx-Lion-on-an-External-Drive
I've checked the instructions (thanks again).
yet I still have a problem, because I can't get to the menu it shows (i.e.: selection of a disk to install Lion/partition it/install).
when I start the iMac, I can only start from the install disk, and then I can only install the operative system on the external disk, without partitioning it.
do you think it will work anyway?
thanks
anita
Apple's link
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3910?viewlocale=en_US
You should see a screen similar to this:
Disc utility will allow you to format the disc
damaged HD
