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iMac won't boot
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1628937"><p>If the OP was running Lion or later, then they might (depending on how they installed it) have a recovery partition, but his first post suggests that either a pirated copy of OS X was installed (no recovery partition) or that the OS was too old to have a recovery partition (Snow Leopard or earlier).</p><p></p><p>The hard drive doesn't appear to be completely dead as I first thought, but clearly it won't boot and the OP apparently doesn't have either a DVD of the operating system, a bootable backup (always a good idea) on an external HD or a bootable USB thumb drive with his more-recent download-only OS X version available.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1628937"] If the OP was running Lion or later, then they might (depending on how they installed it) have a recovery partition, but his first post suggests that either a pirated copy of OS X was installed (no recovery partition) or that the OS was too old to have a recovery partition (Snow Leopard or earlier). The hard drive doesn't appear to be completely dead as I first thought, but clearly it won't boot and the OP apparently doesn't have either a DVD of the operating system, a bootable backup (always a good idea) on an external HD or a bootable USB thumb drive with his more-recent download-only OS X version available. [/QUOTE]
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