Password not Working on Internal iMac Drive

[denniscampbell]

iMac Mojave 10.14 late 2015 21.5.......have been booting from ssd external ( iMac is hd, also Mojave) went to open iMac to use disk warrior and the iMac wont accept my password.......i use a single digit for password ease ......getting into iMac from booted ssd has not changed and all programs are accounted for just cannot get in through the front door........

 

[pm-r]

getting into imac from booted ssd has not changed and all programs are accounted for just cannot get in through the front door........

Try doing a complete shutdown, do not just Restart, wait at least 30 to 40 seconds and then Startup fresh and make sure cap locks key is not enabled.

If that doesn't work, do you have an old wired USB keyboard you could try using???



- Patrick
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[pigoo3]

iMac Mojave 10.14 late 2015 21.5.......have been booting from ssd external ( iMac is hd, also Mojave) went to open iMac to use disk warrior and the iMac wont accept my password.......i use a single digit for password ease ......getting into iMac from booted ssd has not changed and all programs are accounted for just cannot get in through the front door........

If you mostly boot from the external SSD...and not so often from the internal HD...unless something very very strange is going on...I think the answer is...not using the correct password for the internal HD.

I know this sounds elementary...but what else could possibly be the answer.

Nick

 

[Rod]

Does the screen register the entry of this single digit, that is does in see the entry of a character? If so, I can only agree with Nick, it's the wrong password.
Does the iMac work (boot) without the external drive connected?
How do you usually swap from one to the other? eg. Do you boot with the Option key held down and choose the boot volume from the resulting screen?

 

[IWT]

I think the key questions that need to be answered were those mentioned by Rod.

No point in my repeating them.

But of those mentioned, the one that has puzzled me is how you can Boot from different sources without telling the system which one to recognise.

I also noted that you wanted to open the iMac in order to use Disk Warrior. That implies an underlying problem in the first place?

Ian

 

[pm-r]

I also noted that you wanted to open the iMac in order to use Disk Warrior. That implies an underlying problem in the first place?

Which also leaves me wondering what version of DiskWarrior they might have installed and might be planning to use:

As their web page says:

1) Apple File System (APFS) disks (typically a macOS 10.14 Mojave, 10.15 Catalina or 11.0 Big Sur Startup Disk) are recognized but ARE NOT able to be rebuilt by DiskWarrior 5.2. Click here to learn how to identify an APFS disk.

DiskWarrior 5.3 & APFS — ALSOFT

www.alsoft.com

I believe their later more recent version is able to fix APFS formatted drives, but I did not check.

So lots of answers needed to provide any proper suggestions it seems...



- Patrick
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