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Full internal drive - Mac won’t boot - disk utility can’t repair disk - help!
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<blockquote data-quote="techiesteve" data-source="post: 1937988" data-attributes="member: 98520"><p>It would be helpful to know if your iMac is a 21.5", 27", contains a hard drive, fusion drive or an SSD. It sounds as if whatever drive is within the iMac isn't being seen and it's loading from the recovery partition. The worst situation is if you had a fusion drive and one of the 2 drives, more likely the spinner, that makes it up has failed or is very seriously corrupted. Hopefully if your data was important to you you were regularly backing up. Repair would be possible, the chances of recovering data depends upon answering the question re drive type within your iMac.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="techiesteve, post: 1937988, member: 98520"] It would be helpful to know if your iMac is a 21.5", 27", contains a hard drive, fusion drive or an SSD. It sounds as if whatever drive is within the iMac isn't being seen and it's loading from the recovery partition. The worst situation is if you had a fusion drive and one of the 2 drives, more likely the spinner, that makes it up has failed or is very seriously corrupted. Hopefully if your data was important to you you were regularly backing up. Repair would be possible, the chances of recovering data depends upon answering the question re drive type within your iMac. [/QUOTE]
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