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Is iMac hard disk dying?
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<blockquote data-quote="AMACL" data-source="post: 1895417" data-attributes="member: 298303"><p>First off, yes, all this is going on on the 2014 iMac. the other machines are behaving well at present.</p><p></p><p>You wrote:</p><p>Have you tried booting with this Big Sur flash drive in ANY computer successfully before?</p><p> Answer: </p><p>Ah ha, the 64,000-dollar question (as they said when I was a kid in the US). Answer is no, that's why I was a bit dubious but Disk Utility said it was bootable, who am I to argue? If not, I have a High Sierra OS disk on another flash drive, could try that. </p><p></p><p>You wrote: </p><p></p><p>By the way...since you're trying to boot from this bootable macOS installer flash drive (I'm assuming it's a bootable macOS installer)...do you have an external drive to do the installing on already?</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure what you mean. Do I have an external drive other than the flash drive to do what installing ??</p><p>sorry, you lost me there. Another hard disk that is bigger than the flash drive? I have a 256 Gb SSD that I could sacrifice to this task if necessary and even use as the alternate hard disk for my husband's computer until we find a better solution. If that is what you mean.</p><p></p><p>Thanks</p><p>Ann</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AMACL, post: 1895417, member: 298303"] First off, yes, all this is going on on the 2014 iMac. the other machines are behaving well at present. You wrote: Have you tried booting with this Big Sur flash drive in ANY computer successfully before? Answer: Ah ha, the 64,000-dollar question (as they said when I was a kid in the US). Answer is no, that's why I was a bit dubious but Disk Utility said it was bootable, who am I to argue? If not, I have a High Sierra OS disk on another flash drive, could try that. You wrote: By the way...since you're trying to boot from this bootable macOS installer flash drive (I'm assuming it's a bootable macOS installer)...do you have an external drive to do the installing on already? I'm not sure what you mean. Do I have an external drive other than the flash drive to do what installing ?? sorry, you lost me there. Another hard disk that is bigger than the flash drive? I have a 256 Gb SSD that I could sacrifice to this task if necessary and even use as the alternate hard disk for my husband's computer until we find a better solution. If that is what you mean. Thanks Ann [/QUOTE]
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