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<blockquote data-quote="Horsa" data-source="post: 1901910" data-attributes="member: 403905">FURTHER UPDATE:My next door neighbour has lent me his mac laptop for the afternoon so I can retrieve files and do drive diagnostics. The news is encouraging.Took my main storage HDD out of the machine, put it in an external caddy and hooked it up to the laptop. Drive is healthy and contents all intact. Rescued a bunch of essential data (banking logins etc.)Then I took the SSD System drive out of the Mac Pro and hooked it up to the laptop. It mounted fine and all contents are intact and readable. Just for good measure, I ran the Disk Utility First Aid routine on it and it came up healthy. Phew!So what I've got is intact data on healthy drives, but a Mac Pro machine that's lost the ability to boot into the OS. Still pretty disastrous,&nbsp; but not as bad as I'd feared.I'm tempted to buy a 2nd-hand/refurb of the last iteration of the old Intel Mac Pro and just plug my drives in and go.&nbsp; I know, they're dinosaurs now, but I do love 'em!If anyone has any better ideas, feel free to show me the error of my ways. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horsa, post: 1901910, member: 403905"] FURTHER UPDATE: My next door neighbour has lent me his mac laptop for the afternoon so I can retrieve files and do drive diagnostics. The news is encouraging. Took my main storage HDD out of the machine, put it in an external caddy and hooked it up to the laptop. Drive is healthy and contents all intact. Rescued a bunch of essential data (banking logins etc.) Then I took the SSD System drive out of the Mac Pro and hooked it up to the laptop. It mounted fine and all contents are intact and readable. Just for good measure, I ran the Disk Utility First Aid routine on it and it came up healthy. Phew! So what I've got is intact data on healthy drives, but a Mac Pro machine that's lost the ability to boot into the OS. Still pretty disastrous, but not as bad as I'd feared. I'm tempted to buy a 2nd-hand/refurb of the last iteration of the old Intel Mac Pro and just plug my drives in and go. I know, they're dinosaurs now, but I do love 'em! If anyone has any better ideas, feel free to show me the error of my ways. :) [/QUOTE]

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