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• 2012 iMac Fusion Drive Question

  Hi my iMac 2012 drive merger seems to be failing. I know for a fact that the SSD and HD (1 to) are two separate readers and I can replace the HD only instead of two. I would like to know if the HD is different from saying a Seagete HD I can buy the 3rd party vendor or Apple uses a special drive for the fuser unit, it can be replaced by Apple? Thanks in advance.

  See you soon,.

  Johnson

  Yes, it's different, back in 2009 Apple began using HD who had temporary sensors in HD. More on shelf HD do not have this feature, so install something else that one provided by Apple is potentially a problem due to the possible fans running at full speed and possible overheating. You can use the fan control software, but this comes at a risk too, but a lot do successfully.

  You can contact OWC (www.macsales.com) and they can also help direct you to the good soluton. However, if it was my machine I just consider my local AppleStore or Apple authorized service provider and have a job well done.

• iMac external drive does not

  Two days ago, my iMac 2013 end ceased to recognize the external CD/DVD drive I have been connected to it for more than 12 months. Put just the blank disc in the drive resulted in a lot of rumbling and resonate but nothing appear on the screen. Tried a CD and DVD and there nothing either. Did a hard reset and it stopped recognizing the drive at all, so I assumed that the drive was defective.

  Bought a new drive, connected to one of the USB ports and nothing; won't even turn on. Tried different ports and still nothing. Just to be on the safe side, tried other devices on ports and they are beautiful, it seems that the readers of CD/DVD is having a problem with.

  I reset again, turned off and unplugged the power, and it made no difference.

  Someone at - it help him?

  Try to make as an SMC STROLLER and resets. I suggest you reset SMC 2 or 3 times. For reset instructions can be found in the iMac SMC and the PRAM reset

• iMac hard drive problem

  My older iMac 8.1 (Intel Core 2), running OS x 10.9 ran slow, then a few application icons disappears from the display, after a restart, the application has stopped working completely. I tried to reinstall OSX, when this does not work, I did a full erase and reinstall it again, still none of my apps does not work. It manifests itself, and when I click it, it does nothing. I even went back to my original OSX 10.6 Snow Leppard and reinstalled drive and my desktop icons appeared for a few minutes and then everthing disappeared. Also, this has happened during execution of 10.9 as well. Now the only thing that the computer be used to mail is electronic and Safari. I can't run programs and do not have access to HD. If I tried to re - install 10.9, it tells me that it is impossible at this time. I think that my HD is dead? You wanted to check before I replaced it. It starts well, can run internet but not impossible to install, download or run programs. Disk First aid indicates that the computer is fine. Can not really afford to buy a new Mac now, so hoping that this can be a cheaper alternative.

  How much free space on the hard drive?

  There is no 100% way to check the health of a hard disk. Disk utility check alone is doing a part-time job to check the directory structure but not physical integrity of the reader. If you select the top level of a drive in disk utility and then file > retrieves the information of to half way down you can see the report of the SMART State which can indicate if a drive is having problems.  With one of my discs that I checked that feature, but it was not picking up on several defective sectors systematically producing errors.

  The only real way to test a faulty hardware on a computer is to isolate the part (normally in the replacement, or do without it) and see if the issues go away.

  I always keep a clone bootable backup of my drive on a separate drive so I can still boot from the second disk to see if it's an internal drive error.  Having this type of backup is just a part of the ownership of a computer.

  I suppose there is also the possibility, it's another problem as the RAM.  A bad drive would be more consistent as to what elements show problems such as you see.

  You can check on sites like ifixit or OWC (macsales.com) for instructional videos on how to replace the disks.

• safe way to transfer music to iMac hard drive on a separate drive?

  Is there a safe way to move my music from hard drive of my iMac to a separate drive?

  Drag the files normally. If you move your iTunes to work, when finished, start iTunes with down option, and then choose this library.

  If you do this to free up space on the drive or to use music on multiple computers, keep a backup of it on a second disc.

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• Photos only displays videos to 2013 when there are videos iOS clear in 2010.  When I try to re - import videos from my iMac, hard drive, I get a message saying that these videos are already imported, but I can't see them.

  I don't know what it is but Photos only shows videos of courses on April 22, 2013.  I have iOS videos of 2010 on my hard drive on my iMac, but cannot see them in the pictures.  When I try re - import the photos in the hard drive gives me a message saying that they are already imported but asks if I would like to import again.  If I import them once again, I can see them under import last but still do not see in all the pictures or videos.  It is across all devices.  I cannot see them on iMac Photos program, cannot see them on iCloud.com in pictures, can not see them in the pictures on any iPad (mini (3rd generation) or Air 2) or iPhone 6s.

  Any help would be great.

  Photos has a video album - what yu see in it?

  LN

• How iMac G4 Drive w/o Disk Wipe

  I sell an old iMac G4 20 "and you want to remove my personal information from it.  Unfortunately, I have more the installation discs.

  Can I start in disc Mode target, install it from another Mac (via FireWire) and format the drive?

  Any other ideas?

  I need to do the same thing with a MacBook (13 "2006).

  Yes, but computers have a BONE later. If you choose to erase the entire disk from the iMac, you need to get in shape with the APM partition table plan.

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• I want to know on my old iMac hard drives

  I want to put another hard drive in my mid 2007 24 "imac since the former one quit a few months ago. I want to know what I can use. I was checking ebay and found a lot but I'm confused. There is caviar blue and black caviar. There are different brands and different model numbers then. Those that came out was a black WD3200AAJS caviar made in 2008. Can I use another brand? Can I go with another? How to cross reference? I'm thinking than those of roughly the same age of the imac because, after all, it is an old computer and I don't want to spend a lot of money. But I want to remedy for children to use to make videos and photography. It will not be a game machine because they use my other reason. Sorry for the flood of questions!

  Any 3.5 "SATA HDD will work. Is the drive that you took a year newer than the iMac is obviously already been changed before. Black WD drives are good 7200 TPM, blue seem a bit slow, green disks are low consumption and Red are server or business applications.

• freezing of the iMac. hard drive failure?

  My iMac has been freezing a few days ago. At first I thought it might be a Trojan horse, but I could not detect any. I update my OS to El Capitan, hoping he could solve the problem, but the problem persisted.

  I checked the console and I saw this message continues to flow upward

  kernel [0]: disk0s2: i/o error.

  I heard that this indicates a drive failure. I ran first aid through disk utility, then a test of material using the Apple disc, but nothing was detected.

  I hope that it is would be a software issue and not a disk failure. Someone has an idea how to be course and finally fix it?

  My specs:

  iMac (21.5 inch, mid 2011)

  2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 processor

  12 GB DDR3 memory at 1333 MHz

  AMD Radeon HD 6770 M 512 MB graphics card

  Storage: 164,48 GB free of 829 GB

  I should mention that I run windows via bootcamp on the same drive. I haven't experienced the issue on windows, so is it possible that it is not a hardware problem?

• 5K iMac display driver problem crashing end of 2015

  I have a new end 2015 27 "5K iMac, CTO with the i7, Fusion of 3 TB drive and the M395X w / 4 GB of VRAM. I got the plug 8 GB of RAM but put 16 GB of RAM spec Apple Crucial in both. All are adapted. I have clean education installed windows 10 via bootcamp, I also used to divide the disc fusion in partitions of equal size. I had some problems initially with Bluetooth for the magic mouse and display and had to manually install the drivers for the two. In the case of Bluetooth several times. By a very large extent, it was worth the most I got with an installation of bootcamp since the first version as issued. I don't know if it's windows or apple it was a mess of God awful things installed partially or not at all.

  In any case, I got things set to the point where the system seemed stable and decided to start running some games through steam. This is when I started to have a great many problems with the system. More specifically, when I play games on steam I frequently either crash to the desktop or system chokes and throws me back to the default windows display drivers. I say this because I can't see the error appearing frequently in the observer of events just before these accidents is "Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered." Usually, I have two error messages in a line in the newspaper timed just before the accident happens so I am sure that the pilot does not successfully and two kicks me back to the default windows display driver and the locking system until I quit the game via the Task Manager or comes crashing down on the desk. According to the event viewer, I had 20 warning messages (event ID 4101) in the last nine days (yes I play a lot for a 50 year old man).

  Seriously, what gives apple? I drop to $3K on a machine and I can't even enjoy a game that this card should be more capable of running at a decent resolution (Fallout 4) because the drivers suck. AMD released the bootcamp drivers on September 21 last year. They claim they have the latest drivers available (and their latest stable version for systems non-bootcamp is December 15 last year, after having released only 12 days ago the beta drivers) for bootcamp, but you guys are sitting on them because you certify drivers. So, yet again, what gives? Can we get the drivers, we need to use the systems we paid a premium for it please?

  If you want to try non-Apple certified drivers, you can test with WHQL drivers, or try and BCA allows you to download the latest available package and check the version of the drivers available vs installed. AMD GPU are bad when they are in the Mac running Windows. This does not happen on OS X side.

  There are number of threads about the drivers for the AMD GPU and a lot of experimentation within the CSA for Windows drivers.

• Accidentally, I loaded my documents on my drive to icloud.  How can I remove icloud drive and store documents file only on my imac desktop computer

  accidentally, I loaded my documents folder on my desktop imac icloud drive.    What should I do to restore the files to reside on my desktop only?

  Simply drag and drop them in the player iCloud desktop folder.

  You can also learn more about iCloud drive:

  iCloud Drive FAQ - Apple Support

• Wizard BootCamp 6.0.1 running on El Capitan 10.11.5 installs single partition BootCamp on the disc Fusion consisting of 128 SSD part G SSD and 3 TB of HARD drive on an iMac (retina 5K, 27 inches, end of 2014), but not the part of the HARD drive?

  How is it assistant BootCamp 6.0.1 running on El Capitan 10.11.5 installs single partition BootCamp on the disc Fusion consisting of 128 SSD part G SSD and 3 TB of HARD drive on an iMac (retina 5K, 27 inches, end of 2014), but not the part of the HARD drive?

  This has two questions:

  1 capacity of SSDS faster for Fusion drive has been reduced. Therefore less effective for the reader of the merger. For example if I need to create a partition of 80G for my windows bootcamp partition, only 48 G will be left in the drive of the merger.

  2. ability of the bootcamp windows partition becomes very limited, cannot be greater than 120 G.

  3. even when I try to fuse out of the drive of fusion in the 128 G SSD and 3 TB of HARD disk, and then run the BootCamp assistant to create the bootcamp partition start from scratch to reinstall El Capitan only on the HARD drive (without drive Fusion), it won't let me do anything, it just shows an error that says something like "a person has created additional partitions on this drive please select. another disc. But there is nothing else to choose.

  Before my (5 K, 27 inches, end of 2014 retina) to El Capitan Yosemite, I was able to use the previous version of the wizard BootCamp 5.x to create the partition, bootcamp on the drive of the merger. And it will be divided in the fuser unit in two and insert the Bootcamp partition (with the size I chose, which can go up to 1 TB) between two partitions of MAC OSX.

  The disk partitions resulting from it, will be the partition MAC OS x on the SSD, the partition MAC OS x on the HARD drive partition #1, partition MAC OS x on the HARD drive partition #3.

  Then there is the BootCamp partition on the HARD drive partition #2.

  Is there a way to get what I need?

  That is what has been described in this notice of two canoes?

  Installation of Windows on a Boot Camp partition on a drive of TB Fusion 3

  n-on-a-3-TB-fusion-drive http://twocanoes.com/Winclone/support/installing-Windows-on-a-Boot-Camp-partitio

  Thank you.

  After having worked on those weeks, I realized that I need very painfully (by first going back to Yosemite and bootcamp 5 to escape all the limitations of El Capitan and BootCamp 6) I want to share here. Someone at - it other smarter solutions welcome.

  Note these steps and mentioned drivers only work for my version of iMAC, retina 5K late 2014. If you have other material, please search on the web to see which driver will work first. And all of these steps are destructive and assumed that you first take backup. It is only shared for interest only. Readers will have to bear your own risk.

  A. take backup

  1. take a backup completes my iMac Fusion Drive using Time Machine. Then restart with a Yosemite USB installation and select Terminal from the menu on the top bar.

  B. fuse out of the merger in two physical disks drive: SSD + HDD

  1. in the terminal, type the commands in show what the logical volume group ID and the ID of the logical Volume of the disc fusion)

  Cs diskutil list

  2. in the terminal, type commands for the fuse of the fuser unit and separate them to an SSD and a HARD drive.  Note: All data will be destroyed in the drive of the merger. There are many articles in this community on how this could be done,

  diskutil cs deleteVolume Logical Volume ID

  CS diskutil remove logical Volume Group ID

  This should finish within 30 minutes. If you have taken more time, this means that your reader of fusion has been altered somehow.

  I hit this issue too.  To use this command to remove the fusion drive hung up, and I need to do the hard to scramble a few sections of data in the hard disk partition table using the controls to tell the OSX this hard drive is a new without partitions:

  Cat >/dev/random /dev/disk0 (where/dev/disk0 is the SSD)

  and repeat for disk1/dev/disk1 which is the HARD drive in my case).

  This command will not return anything, but expect to press Ctrl-Z to end after 1 minute.

  2 create independent partitions (non-fusionend) for the installation of OSX.

  Borne Terminal output, and select disk utility, in disk utility, select the drive to HARD disk (and not on the partition), you will see the error message and you will be asked if you want to fix the fuser unit, click on ignore. Then wipe the HARD drive to create a single 'extended OSX journaled"named"HARD drive".

  3. Repeat step 2, and then erase the SSD drive to create a single 'extended OSX journaled"named"SSD ".

  C. install on the HARD disk as drive didier autonomous not fusion.

  1. go to Yosemite install screen and proceed with the installation of a clean copy of Yosemite to the iMAC. then connect you.

  D. use BootCamp Yosemite f5 to install windows.

  1. launch Yosemite bootcamp.

  2. check the two checkboxes for creating the USB drive to install windows 7 or a later version, and to download the windows supports the Apple software.  Do not click on the last box to install or remove windows pie creating real bootcamp partition again.

  3. it may take several hours to complete this function of your internet b/w and also performance of your USB drive.

  4. If you install Windows 7 (like me), then the downloaded drivers will not work for you, this will cause the issue of the device driver appleDSS.sys does not like this driver and others are too recent for windows 7 to use.  Also, your keyboard and mouse may not work even if you try to plug in a USB external keyboard or a mouse. You need to replace the drivers downloaded by others (the Boot Camp 5.1.5769 drivers that I find in this link: Software Support of Boot Camp 5.1.5769.) (Note: this driver is material specific only works for my iMAC model).  Once you have downloaded it, copy the two files in the root directory of the USB installation to replace the original ones. It's specific and material available for download somewhere on the Apple Site.

  -From the Finder, delete the $WinPE$ and the Boot Camp of the FLASH PLAYER files.

  -Expand the old drivers for Boot Camp 5.1.5769 (two records and another file) on your desktop.

  -Copy the $WinPE$ and records of Boot Camp in the FLASH PLAYER.

  5. open Boot Camp Assistant again and only select the third option, install Windows 7.

  It will show you the screen to select what installation disk, select HARD drive.

  Then drag the slide bar to select the size of the Bootcamp partition for windows you want, knowing that there is a restriction for windows installed using training camp on a MAC that the last byte of the BootCamp partition must reside in the first byte of the 2.2 T of each physical hard drive.

  For my case, I need only 500G for bootcamp and leaving behind 1.7 to for my MAC OSX partition immediately after the bootcamp partition and an another 0.8 T MAC OSX partition after him. 1.7 TB and the partition of MAC OS x 0.8 TB well exploited in the meantime bootcamp partition, will be merged into a fusion drive by Bootcamp. Thus, you will end up with total 2.5 TB of disk space in a logical drive - fuser.

  Go to this link for more details on this subject: n-on-a-3-tb-fusion-drive http://twocanoes.com/winclone/support/installing-windows-on-a-boot-camp-partitio

  6. continue the process to partition the hard drive, then it will restart automatically in windows installation mode, install windows.

  7. once the installation is complete, check that windows is functioning correctly.

  E. Si you want to upgrade to windows 10 Windows 7.

  1 if you plan to upgrade to windows 10, you'll find that the windows IE v.8 7 is no longer works and had many problems to load the page.  Then when you try to download the latest version of Internet Explorer, you get an error that you need at least windows 7 SP1 to support the last IE.  Life is too complicated, just download the google Chrome browser, then search for download windows 10 and then run the Microsoft valuation tool to upgrade.

  2 but before upgrade you, unplug all your MAC USB drives, otherwise, you will find that, after having spent an hour downloading the windows 10 software, the upgrade will fail with the error "/ dynamicupdate...» ». It is an inexplicable mistake that no one seems to understand why. There are articles with proven results that the removal of all USB drives before running the windows 10 upgrade tool will correct this problem.

  F. reinstall OSX El Capitan

  Once your target windows system (if windows 7, windows 8 or windows 10) works very well.  You can continue to create again your Fusion drive and reinstall OSX El Capitan.

  1. Insert the install of OSX Yosemite rear USB to the iMAC, and then select Restart Windows, or stop, and then turn the MAC once again.

  2. When you hear the ringing tone, press on and hold down the option key for 10 seconds. Then you release.

  3. on the selection screen, select start Yosemite OSX install drive.

  4. after starting, do not proceed to install OSX El Capitan again. But select Terminal from the menu bar.

  5. in the terminal, type the command 'diskutil list cs' and you should see nothing to prove that there are no existing fusion drive yet.

  6 type the 'diskutil list' command to list all disks and partitions.

  The SSD has two partitions, the/dev/disk0s1 of EFI (209 MB) partition and the other/dev/disk0s2 of OSX partition we created in step B above, called SSD around 121 G.

  The HARD drive has two partitions, the/dev/disk1s1 of EFI (209 MB) partition and the other/dev/disk1s2 of OSX partition we created in step B above, called SSD.

  G. delete the logical storage of nucleus on the HARD disk drive and it refuses with the DSS to form a merger with faster performance disc

  1. Insert the install of OSX El Capitan rear USB to the iMAC, and then select Restart Windows, or stop, and then turn the MAC once again.

  2. When you hear the ringing tone, press on and hold down the option key for 10 seconds. Then you release.

  3. on the selection screen, select start Yosemite OSX install drive.

  4. after starting, do not proceed to install OSX El Capitan again. But select Terminal from the menu bar.

  5. in the terminal, type orders for (to show what are the logical volume group ID and the ID of the logical Volume of the logical drive). You should see the logical volume to basic storage group created using two partitions on the hard drive, 1.7 TB and TB 0.8 created when we run the Yosemite Bootcamp to install windows.

  Cs diskutil list

  6. in the terminal, type commands to delete logical drives from basic storage.  Note: All data will be destroyed in the logical drive.

  diskutil cs deleteVolume Logical Volume ID

  CS diskutil remove logical Volume Group ID

  7. tap "diskutil list" command lists all the resulting partitions. You should see that the HARD drive has the following partitions.

  / dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: GUID_partition_scheme * GB 121,3 disk0

  1: disk0s1 EFI EFI 209.7 MB

  2: Apple_HFS GB SSD 121.0 disk0s2

  / dev/disk1 (internal, physical):

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: GUID_partition_scheme * 3.0 to disk1

  1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

  2: Apple_HFS 1.7 Untitled TB disk1s2

  3: disk1s3 Apple_Boot Recovery 650.0 MB HD

  4: Microsoft database BOOTCAMP 503.0 GB disk1s4

  5: Apple_HFS 801,4 Untitled GB disk1s5

  8 type the following commands to create the logical volumes group, named "myLVG" (or the name) of fuser using the usable for OSX to the SSD and HDD partitions.

  diskutil cs to create "myLVG" disk0s2 disk1s2 disk1s5

  Note: Mark the group id of logical volume shown in the results.

  In my case, I want to book the last partition as standalone partition disk1s5 no-fusionend, so I can use it to raise the back, or format it in FAT32 to allow the exchange of data between the MAC and boot camp.

  So, I do not understand this last partition in the drive of the merger. in my case, the command that I used is: diskutil cs to create "myLVG" disk0s2 disk1s2

  9 create logical volumes named "Macintosh HD" (or you call it) on the logical volume group we just created for the reader of the merger.

  diskutil createvolume logical volume group ID jhfs cs + 'Macintosh HD' 100%

  10 command "diskutil cs type list" to check the resulting fusion drive created.

  CoreStorage groups of logical volumes (1 found)

  |

  + Logical Volume - Group F53C7A25-C2F3-4997-91E9-2E6B6BAB2E0E

  =========================================================

  Name: LVG

  Status: online

  Dimensions: 1815635525632 B (1.8 to)

  Free space: 90112 B (90.1 KB)

  |

  +-Physical volume E176873C-7C80-4759-8110-BA7307E0C4B3

  |   ----------------------------------------------------

  |   Index: 0

  |   Disc: disk0s2

  |   Status: online

  |   Dimensions: 120988852224 B (121.0 GB)

  |

  +-Physical volume 6535AC3C-DCF8-453F-AD47-98905538386E

  |   ----------------------------------------------------

  |   Index: 1

  |   Disc: disk1s2

  |   Status: online

  |   Dimensions: 1694646673408 B (1.7 to)

  |

  +--> Logical volume family F3D15F87-FB84-4B43-B2F2-E9EACC7C42D9

  ----------------------------------------------------------

  Encryption type: no

  |

  +--> Logical volume 0D807F6E-FB7C-418F-AAF4-EF3EA3525D10

  ---------------------------------------------------

  Disc: disk2

  Status: online

  Size (Total): 1809780178944 B (1.8 to)

  Reversible: no

  Name: Macintosh HD

  Volume name: Macintosh HD

  Content indicator: Apple_HFS

  LVG Type: Fusion, sparse

  11 exit the terminal, go back to OSX El Capitan install screen and select the name of the fuser unit 'Macintosh HD' proceed to begin the installation of the os x for installation.

  12. There will be a step in the installation ask you if you want to configure as a new computer, or restore from a time machine previous backup. Make your own choices it accordingly.

  13 once OSX El Capitan has been installed and you have finished restoring the data and custom configurations, you can enter the application of preferences to check if you see the icon of the "Startup" disk", and if you choose Startup BootCamp in the next reboot, you should be able to boot up to Windows without pressing and holding the button option when reboot and choose to start windows manually. Also, in windows, you should be able to click on the bootcamp Control Panel and select for a startup to OSX on the next reboot.

  14. one thing to be aware, if you install bootcamp in this way, the boot camp and the GUI utility disk in OSX El Capitan will not be able to adjust your settings. This means, if you need to touch anything or to readjust the size of the partition, you will need to do it again in step A. Alternatively, some how to get started with installing Mac OSX Yosemite USB, then adjust the partitions using similar commands shown in this article or other articles in this community.

  15. yet once please take personal responsibility on damage if you follow the instructions in this article.

• Hard drive keeps asking for password

  There is probably a no-brainer for her but I can't seem to find it: I have configured previously time machine to encrypt a volume on my mac for backup, but I stopped to use it as a backup volume and want to use it as a normal volume. However whenever I start the iMac hard drive ask me a password. Is there a way to remove it?

  Thank you

  Anyone? I don't want to have to reformat the data into car and transfer out and back again... Hope that there is an easy way to remove the password?

• Crash of MacBook, iMac with SATA-USB cable files

  Hello.

  My Macbook (2006) took a nose dive after a very solid 10 years of use. He has been blocked on the gray screen with the Apple logo and the spinning equipment. Forever. Would not boot mode safe mode or Recovery Mode. I accepted this.

  I'm currently trying join my school for the HARD of MB my iMac disk files. I removed the drive HARD internal of the MB. I have a SATA cable / USB. I plugged the cable on my iMac and initially nothing was recognized even if I could hear the disk rotation. After about 2-3 minutes I got a message telling me the disc HARD cannot be repaired, but I could always transfer files. Great! That's all I wanted to do. Well, the HARD drive appeared in the Finder and I tried to navigate to find important files I got a message telling me that the HARD drive has been expelled irregularly. So I disconnect it, plug it in. Another few minutes and I get the same message (cannot be repaired), but this time I have no HARD drive in the Finder. I tried to run first aid at the disk in disk utility, without success. Now I can't even pop-up in the Finder or disk utility when I plug. I can hear it running, but nothing happens, and then I get a message "disc not eject properly.

  My question is this: How can I get information from this my iMac HARD drive? Is there anything else I need to do? All I want to do is pull my notes of the current semester. Nothing else on this HARD drive as it was basically just a web browser/treatment for the past year.

  FWIW: I think I was running Lion as an operating system on the laptop that I couldn't progresses from here with updates. I'm under El Capitan on my iMac.

  Even if you already shot the player, have you considered using Disk Mode target instead?

  Target disk mode, indeed, turns your Mac into a 'external drive '. In this mode, you can connect your defective Mac to Mac via FireWire or Thunderbolt and see the contents of the disc of the CMA on your Mac, as if the drive was an external drive. This not only allows you to easily access the data on the hard drive of the Mac, it also allows you to use the material of a Mac to boot another Mac operating system and data.

  To access the target disk Mode, reboot your Mac and hold down the T key as soon as you hear the startup chime. Keep now until you see a FireWire logo or white Thunderbolt appear on the screen (depending on the hardware capabilities of your Mac). Now, you can directly connect your Mac to Mac defective with the appropriate cable and access the drive of this Mac. When you are done, unmount the drive of the defective Mac from your Mac running OS X, then press on and hold the power button / stop the Mac defective until the system turns off.

• SD card dropped by iMac superdrive

  an SD card has been left accidentally fall into a 21-inch iMac superdrive drive location the superdrive rendering unusable. The SD card can be ejected without disassembling the iMac?

  SD card into the slot for cd