![]() ![]() So now you can work on fixing your system knowing that you have not lost your data. When you get Your Friend to loan you his Mac for a day or what have you, copy your data on that Ext-HD once it gains access to your HD through Target-Disk-Mode. Pretending that you have NOT done that, get said External HD. If you have done that, then you can trouble-shoot knowing that one you get your operating system fixed you can recover anything lost. So how does this at all help you now? A lot depends on whether or not you have saved your data. #Install os x el capitan to new drive installObviously, I cannot access the drive to remove whatever install media is present on that disk. I tried to start in recovery mode, also in safe mode with the progress bar appearing after each attempt. After walking away for an hour or two, I powered the machine down, restarted it with the option button to get the start up disk manager but only got the apple logo and progress bar, again. I restarted and got a progress bar (Apple logo above) which never fully finished, or it did but nothing happened. I clicked, installation (from bootable flash drive) it stated to restart, with this done a message came that there was installation media on the destination volume, try again. A screen shows up with the 10.11 logo stating to install click continue, agree to terms and install OS, I got the option to use disk utility, time machine or recovery or click the install button. The install of El Capitan, at least what I thought was the installation, took a while. My machine: mid 2007 24" iMac, 2 GB RAM Intel Duo, 667MHz, 2.8GHz, 500GB HD, superdrive, OS X 10.8 ![]()
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