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  • Re: Any solution to bust-apart fusion drive data recovery on Imac?

    From Alan Browne@21:1/5 to Amandaa Ripanykhazov on Mon Jan 22 13:28:08 2024
    XPost: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2024-01-22 13:12, Amandaa Ripanykhazov wrote:
    I have been playing around with iboysoft data recovery solutions which
    dont actually work for a couple of weeks, when suddenly my IMac started
    to boot up into a desktop! I cant get it much past a login password
    screen but frankly with all the supposed damage of a split-up fusion
    drive, I am kinda shocked at getting this far!

    Can you boot into safe mode or internet recovery mode? Careful of the
    later if you have data on your drive.


    This seems to have happened because I left the iMac partially booted,
    where something keeps telling it to re-boot itself;     and this has happened enough times while unattended that eventually it HAS booted

    Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might get this computer to
    boot up all the way while I have a Time Machine drive attached such that
    I can get  a backup prior to executing the Fusion-Reset procedure please?

    See stuff below which might or might not lead you to the right place.
    (This includes a link to iboysoft so that one is maybe burned...)

    *** No guarantee it's safe. ***

    Wish I could help more. I'll be re-purposing an iMac and that includes replacing the hard drive. On that iMac changing to an SSD did not work
    at all. Well, not completely sure, I could possibly re-install back to whatever OS it came with originally (10.8 or 10.9) and then upgrade up
    to Catalina. It's back to spinning disk for now.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LMIfdIDh7I

    Repair disk? https://iboysoft.com/mac-data-recovery/file-system-verify-or-repair-failed-disk-utility.html

    https://canada.ifixit.com/products/imac-intel-27-late-2012-late-2019-ssd-upgrade-bundle

    OWC: SSD card (not HD)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13pYn0AcGe0

    OWC HDD
    https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDIM12Y960/

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Amandaa Ripanykhazov on Tue Jan 23 10:15:32 2024
    XPost: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2024-01-22 18:12:42 +0000, Amandaa Ripanykhazov said:

    I have been playing around with iboysoft data recovery solutions which
    dont actually work for a couple of weeks, when suddenly my IMac started
    to boot up into a desktop! I cant get it much past a login password
    screen but frankly with all the supposed damage of a split-up fusion
    drive, I am kinda shocked at getting this far!

    This seems to have happened because I left the iMac partially booted,
    where something keeps telling it to re-boot itself; and this has
    happened enough times while unattended that eventually it HAS booted

    Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might get this computer to
    boot up all the way while I have a Time Machine drive attached such
    that I can get a backup prior to executing the Fusion-Reset procedure please?

    Assuming the main drive isn't dead, the best option would be to simply
    erase the main drive and reinstall MacOS via either the normal Apple
    Recovery mode or by using a USB drive which has the MacOS installer
    (you will need another Mac to make one though). It depends on which Mac
    you have as to how you boot into either of those other options.

    Then, never ever use third-party "recovery" apps again. They simply do
    not work.

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