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Hello ,
I have been having problems with my iMac ( 3 GHz. , i5 , 21.5 2017 ) I have posted another thread on the issues I am having , however I am stuck .
It was suggested that I try booting the Os from an External Drive , however I don't have an extra one to do this with , I was going to try and boot from a USB drive , but no matter what I try the computer will no recognize the USB as a bootable drive .
The last option that I can see is to reinstall the OS and see if that fixes the issues , if that don't work I am going to have to haul the iMac off to the Apple Store .
I have been looking at https://macdaddy.io/duplicate/ to duplicate my Hard Drive so I can put in on my external drive so I can perform a clean install .
Is this method a good option ?
I am not that failure with doing this and don't want to delete anything important , however I do have Time Machine turned on and its using that external drive . I don't want to restore using Time Machine in case the problem I am having exist in the back up .
Thanks for any help you can suggest .
John
I have been having problems with my iMac ( 3 GHz. , i5 , 21.5 2017 ) I have posted another thread on the issues I am having , however I am stuck .
It was suggested that I try booting the Os from an External Drive , however I don't have an extra one to do this with , I was going to try and boot from a USB drive , but no matter what I try the computer will no recognize the USB as a bootable drive .
The last option that I can see is to reinstall the OS and see if that fixes the issues , if that don't work I am going to have to haul the iMac off to the Apple Store .
I have been looking at https://macdaddy.io/duplicate/ to duplicate my Hard Drive so I can put in on my external drive so I can perform a clean install .
Is this method a good option ?
I am not that failure with doing this and don't want to delete anything important , however I do have Time Machine turned on and its using that external drive . I don't want to restore using Time Machine in case the problem I am having exist in the back up .
Thanks for any help you can suggest .
John