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Guys,
Having a load of grief with my Mac and i am useless when computers don't work properly.
I have an old mid 2010 iMac that has worked wonderfully until a few months ago where it just randomly freeze, no spinning beach ball but just freeze. Switch off and all good.
Then it would not restart at all when frozen unless in safe mode where i would run the disk repair thing, find a load of errors then work for a few days.
Now i can't get it to start at all in safe mode either.
Just loads up the progress bar then switches off every time. I can get it to the Screen with macOS utilities by starting and pressing cmd and R But it wont back up from time machine and running disk utilities from there and first aid just fails.
I am a photographer and have everything backed up on external drives but would like to get it back to normal if possible!
Cheers.
Having a load of grief with my Mac and i am useless when computers don't work properly.
I have an old mid 2010 iMac that has worked wonderfully until a few months ago where it just randomly freeze, no spinning beach ball but just freeze. Switch off and all good.
Then it would not restart at all when frozen unless in safe mode where i would run the disk repair thing, find a load of errors then work for a few days.
Now i can't get it to start at all in safe mode either.
Just loads up the progress bar then switches off every time. I can get it to the Screen with macOS utilities by starting and pressing cmd and R But it wont back up from time machine and running disk utilities from there and first aid just fails.
I am a photographer and have everything backed up on external drives but would like to get it back to normal if possible!
Cheers.
Edited by nessiemac on Tuesday 19th September 15:53
clockworks said:
Same problem last year with my 2011 27". Kept freezing, then HDD died.
I didn't fancy taking the screen out to get to the HDD, so I took it to an authorised repairer. They charged me about £40 labour to replace the drive.
I asked about fitting an SSD, but they said they wouldn't do that, as there would be problems with the fans if I used a drive without the correct temperature sensor. Googling at the time showed some software tricks to get around the problem, but no hardware solution. Is that still the case now?
How much all in then to replace the HDD?I didn't fancy taking the screen out to get to the HDD, so I took it to an authorised repairer. They charged me about £40 labour to replace the drive.
I asked about fitting an SSD, but they said they wouldn't do that, as there would be problems with the fans if I used a drive without the correct temperature sensor. Googling at the time showed some software tricks to get around the problem, but no hardware solution. Is that still the case now?
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