Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Browne Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Has all the data disappeared off my old core2duo iMac? Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:16:49 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:16:49 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="adbbf84814a269f26f569419a762e839"; logging-data="511174"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19rSYGSM/rkIn5E2sbEvy+Eno6eLmQnGQU=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:i9mu2ldkUYdkVJZwRHEzl+vniKk= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2757 On 2024-06-10 09:40, Amanda Ripanykhazov wrote: > On 6/9/24 7:40 PM, Percival John Hackworth wrote: > >> Sounds like a dead or dying hard drive. >> >> Install a new disk into the machine and reinstall MacOS from the network >> (command-R from boot). >> Attach the old drive to the system with a USB cable. Amazon sells ones >> from >> Sabrent but there are others. >> When the new install asks if you want to migrate from another machine, >> select >> the old drive as the source OR use your latest Time Machine Backup. >> > Thanks guys! I kinda knew that was the position, - I was just hoping > that I might have overlooked some option for reading what was on the > drive.  But short of re-building whatever the Master Boot Record is > called on a Mac, I do accept that this is unlikely. > > I'm pretty sure this is just a backup computer and whatever is on it is > somewhere else as well so it just isnt worthwhile spending too much time > getting it working. > > I also agree that this whole situation only arises because the drive is > on it's way out and the computer urgently needs throwing away,  rather > than wasting time pulling it apart to put a new HD in it What year is the computer? That it wants to "El Capitan" suggests 2015 which (to me) is not an old computer. Core 2 Duo suggest closer to 2010 if not older... It could be (with a new drive and install) a great starter Mac for someone out there with modest computing needs. -- "It would be a measureless disaster if Russian barbarism overlaid the culture and independence of the ancient States of Europe." Winston Churchill