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<blockquote data-quote="Fididi" data-source="post: 1938009" data-attributes="member: 419783">Hi there, thanks for replies so far.some clarifications (for what it’s worth!) * I’ve made an assumption the computer won’t boot because the internal drive is full. I may be wrong, * after trying disk repair using fsck command (which also failed) I tried first aid again from disk utility and for a while there looked promising, but it then returned an invalid node b-tree size error and Is stuck at that and pretty much instantly fails the first aid process.* I actually have no idea what type of internal drive it is. I’m such a novice so unsure what.a SATA drive means. * i haven’t tried booting from external hard drive - but I can connect one and it is recognised by disk utility (and mounted).&nbsp; but can’t find anyway to access files on the drive to transfer them.* and of course, I didn’t back up….kicking myself the iMac contained all my data from the days when I have a G4 Pro Mac going back to 2000s when data was smaller, but still accumulated - so extra silly I wasn’t thinking about back ups. I just thought Macs never failed….is it time to fork out for pro help or is there a chance of being able to retrieve data myself ?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fididi, post: 1938009, member: 419783"] Hi there, thanks for replies so far. some clarifications (for what it’s worth!) * I’ve made an assumption the computer won’t boot because the internal drive is full. I may be wrong, * after trying disk repair using fsck command (which also failed) I tried first aid again from disk utility and for a while there looked promising, but it then returned an invalid node b-tree size error and Is stuck at that and pretty much instantly fails the first aid process. * I actually have no idea what type of internal drive it is. I’m such a novice so unsure what.a SATA drive means. * i haven’t tried booting from external hard drive - but I can connect one and it is recognised by disk utility (and mounted). but can’t find anyway to access files on the drive to transfer them. * and of course, I didn’t back up….kicking myself the iMac contained all my data from the days when I have a G4 Pro Mac going back to 2000s when data was smaller, but still accumulated - so extra silly I wasn’t thinking about back ups. I just thought Macs never failed…. is it time to fork out for pro help or is there a chance of being able to retrieve data myself ? [/QUOTE]

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