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So, a couple days after I moved my iMac I rebooted because it seemed to be acting up and on boot I got a black screen with a circle with a line through it. I looked online for fixes and ended up restarting holding command-r to get into recovery mode. Once in there I went to disk utility to try...

Hello to all forum members :) Info: iMac 27-Inch "Core i7" 3.4 (Mid-2011) <--[Target] 3.4 GHz Core i7 (I7-2600) Previous MacOS installed - Unknown Currently installed system - Win 10 x64 I do not have another apple computer with MacOS to try to prepare the installation disk on it, using, the...

I'm recycling some donated computers that Goodwill here resells. Of course these have reached the end of their lifecycle so they usually only support snow leopard. The next step is trying a more recent OS. My first step was to use the standard method to create a USB that would install LION...

Hello. I plan on hooking a Lacie drive (SSD Rugged 500gb) for my old late 2011 macbook pro.... I plan to use the the old thunderbolt 2 cable and installing OSX on the drive to achieve faster speeds than my internal hard drive. My question is, and it's more a Lacie Product question than...

I have a 2010 5,1 Mac Pro. I recently upgraded my hardware to 2, 6-core x5690s, 64GB ram and a GTX 1060 6G. My next move was to upgrade the OS to Mojave, but I didn't know that Nvidia's web drivers were not supported in Mojave. So per Apple Support's instructions, I swapped out the Nvidia card...

Hi, My Mac Pro 5.1 has experienced a power outage, and after that I have been unable to boot it succesfully. I get to the Logo screen with the progress bar getting slowly to 100% and then it stays there. I have tried all shortcuts when booting, and I haven't even been able to get the Recovery...

Hey Everyone— This may be more suited to an OS forum, but since this is on a Mac Pro and I consider this forum my "home forum" :D I'm asking here for a quick bit of advice. In order to use Ubuntu and an LSI SAS card to format a bunch of SAS drives w/ sg3_utils, I ran Unetbootin on one Mac Pro...

Hi Hope you can help, I have spent a week on this, and i am getting closer. I can't remember my pwd for my MacBook Pro, as i haven't used it for well over a year since I bought it. As the screen was cracked i store dit away, but now i don't have any mac in the house and life isn't the same...

Hi all, I hope this is the right place where to ask this. This is my first post on here! I have this Mac Pro: Mac Pro 5,1 (Mid 2012) (Silver Tower) 3,33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon OS: High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G65) My Goal: - Clone the boot drive to a SSD Samsung Evo 860 drive (I have a 2,5'' to...

I've got a MacPro 4,1, already updated firmware to 5,1 firmware. Runs great. If I upgrade to High Sierra, it wants to update my firmware to the HS version. Can I still multi-boot to Sierra after this firmware updating? Are there any other multi-boot issues after HS update?

Hello! I have a qestion. I have iMac with usb external disk with MacOS High Sierra. ( No APFS ). When i power up imac, i see black screen. After 10 seconds, the apple logo appears and the booting from the external usb disk. All works fine but i need boot default from external USB ( save the 10...

Hi! So, ive got a macbook early 2016 256 out of the box. First boot was okay, but first restart (due to appstore updates. Nothing is wrong with it, the fact of machine shutdown is the problem) it didnt boot because no storage available (ssd dissapeared, blinking folder). Injected thumb drive...

Hi guys, I actually posted this on the Apple support forums but it got absolutely no help, so I'm hoping the community we have here has a few ideas for remedying this issue. Currently running a Mid 2015, 15" MacBook Pro Retina (2.8Ghz i7, 1TB SSD, AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2 GB, Intel Iris Pro 1536...

Hi, I downloaded Sierra on my MacBook Retina. But the installation stops at 40%. When I want to select a boot disk, there is none. At Disk Utility Macintosh HD is light grey and I can't activate the disk. I did a test by pressing D when turning on the computer but that stops and crashes at the...

I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro 15" 2.2ghz i7 quad, 8GB, 240gb SSD. OS X 10.10 > I get chime when powers on > OS gets stuck on the loading screen 1/4 of the way. Then restarts (then repeat) or the screen goes back and then turns on to go to a white screen without the apple logo. * reset PRAM...

hello everyone Yesterday I had to open my Mac mini late 2012 cos the fans were going crazy plus mini was getting way too hot It was full of dust so cleaned it and only places I had to unscrew were the fans and not removing the whole logic board On boot everything seemed ok Then I kept...

Hello everybody, I'm wondering if anybody has any experience installing and booting mac os from SSD drive Samsung T3. Reading from older articles it seems there was software (samsung) issues with the T1, but so far I couldn't find anything specifically with respect to the new T3. Any thoughts or...

I have late 2012 mac mini with an i5, 4 GB of ram and the standard 500GB HDD. The system had really slowed down do I decided to upgrade to and SSD drive. I cloned the current drive using CarbonCloner. I bought a crucial 275GB SSD and cloned the HDD using CarbonCloner. I think I did everything...

Here is the sequence of events: 1. The graphics card broke on my iMac. Unfortunately, it’s hard to find a new one for my 2010 model. So I decided I would get a new computer and sell this one for parts. At this point, I could only start the computer in safe mode. 2. I wiped my hard drive, using...

Hi everyone I just bought the Crucial MX300 525GB SSD for my iMac, hooked it up with a USB3 to SATA3 adapter and made it my startup disk. I thought the boot time would be a huge difference like you see in all of those YouTube videos but it wasn't. What do you guys think? Also does anyone know...