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Apple Users

a kennedy

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6. Don't have an external hard drive.....

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Tue Jun 12, 2018, 01:33 PM

Jun 2018

hoping my time machine will have my backups.....if not, then my last 8 years are all gone. Going to Apple store tomorrow, plan is to just suck it up and buy another iMac.

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Well I think my 8 year old iMac just bit the dust......it's just black..... [View all] a kennedy Jun 2018 OP

This why we need to saidsimplesimon Jun 2018 #1

Wanna buy my 15 yo G5 tower N_E_1 for Tennis Jun 2018 #2

Take it to the nearest Apple store, along with an external hard drive. brush Jun 2018 #3

Yah, we took it there, and it cost of 75.00 for them to even look at it, and another 60.00 to back a kennedy Jun 2018 #10

Hope you backed it up!! mitch96 Jun 2018 #4

I had to have my hard drive replaced a few years ago. They called it a "vintage" system. Hahaha Freethinker65 Jun 2018 #5

Don't have an external hard drive..... a kennedy Jun 2018 #6

Can you boot it in Target Disk mode ? eppur_se_muova Jun 2018 #7

OMGOSH eppur_se_muova.......all that looks so great, but you're asking me a kennedy Jun 2018 #8

Does it do that when you boot in Safe Mode? Elwood P Dowd Jun 2018 #9