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iMac fried harddrive-possibly..any solutions?

Hello all,

I have an intel iMac mid 2010' 19 inch (I think it is..)
Anyways, As I came back to my mac, (I put it to sleep the night before) I noticed the screen was stuck black..I tried to wake it, patiently waiting for atleast ten minutes, then I powered down (hitting the power button).

So I turn it back on, and it loads but then I notice after the apple came on and the loading circle, it stayed grey. I also noticed there were tiny lines to the bottom left of the cursor. So I reset the PRAM. No luck. I came accross an article that told me to do CMD+R. So I did it, and It worked, so this is how im typing this. So I went into disk utility, and erased all hard drives, (bootcamp WHICH I suspect there might've been a virus) So then I put in a Macbook ****MACBOOK**** Cd, because I lost my iMac CD. So I hit C, and then It came up, BUT, it was all distorted, and I couldn't load anything. I even repaired disk perms. in CMD + R. STILL, after that nothing, tried 5-10 times. Then I tried loading my windows side,

Nothing. Black screen, and then it restarted. I'm very frustrated and if someone could help right now, it'd be fantastic.
With many thanks,
Noah.

iMac, Mid 2010

Posted on Apr 1, 2013 2:29 PM

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SeaPapp

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Posted on Apr 1, 2013 2:38 PM

If you're able to start to the Utilities screen using Command R why don't you just click to reinstall OS X on that screen? The imac won't start EVER using a macbook disc, those grey discs are computer specific.

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Noah_Lauzier Author

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Apr 2, 2013 1:31 PM in response to Noah_Lauzier

This is an example of the issue on my screen for the Macbook CD- But it was larger...
http://olesa.com.tw/images/apple/33428_1266937288303_1675947525_507708_2224186_n .jpg

SeaPapp

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Apr 2, 2013 4:02 PM in response to Noah_Lauzier

Noah, as was mentioned a few posts ago, you need to make an appointment and take your computer in to the genius bar, if that is indeed a hardware failure there's no way to positively diagnose it here. When you bought Mountian Lion you used a credit card, find that purchase through your credit card company and take that with you. Without proof that you did indeed pay for it you're going to have to pay again unless you can convince someone otherwise. But the bottom line is.....you need to take your computer in.

SeaPapp

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Apr 2, 2013 4:04 PM in response to Noah_Lauzier

And forget about using the macbook disc in your imac....it will not work.

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Apr 13, 2013 7:19 PM in response to SeaPapp

All right, it's all sorted out now, I have the OS but It fails to install now. I know my computer still works, this is how I'm typing it... (Recovery mode) Im not under warranty anymore!! It's still usable. Im so frustrated.

iMac fried harddrive-possibly..any solutions?