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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1728496" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>As Ian stated above, your hard drive has failed and needs to be replaced.  Since your iMac is out of warranty, you have several choices:  You can take it to Apple for repair or do it yourself.  The difficulty of getting into an iMac and replacing the hard drive (without breaking anything else) is not the only problem.  Your hard drive will have to be replaced with an exact Apple replacement or the fans in your iMac will roar like a 747 on takeoff. There are ways around that which you can Google and read about.  You might want to take a look at the hard drive replacement procedure at <a href="http://www.ifixit.com" target="_blank">www.ifixit.com</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>