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1. #WHAT FORMAT IS BEST FOR REIMAGUNG MY MAC OVER THE INTERNET? INSTALL#
2. #WHAT FORMAT IS BEST FOR REIMAGUNG MY MAC OVER THE INTERNET? UPDATE#

#WHAT FORMAT IS BEST FOR REIMAGUNG MY MAC OVER THE INTERNET? INSTALL#

Once they have recovered what data they can, then you can go ahead and clean-reinstall the OS on the machine, set up your account, install the applications, put your data back etc.Īnd then, in the name of all that's holy, get yourself an external disk and set up the Time Machine backups, because it absolutely will happen again at some point.

You'll probably need to take the whole iMac somewhere (getting the drive out is not an easy job), where they have the tools and expertise to do this. The more you try to reinstall the OS, the less chance there is of anything being recoverable - hence all the advise above about leaving it alone. What needs to be done is the iMac should be booted off an additional (external) boot disk and recovery tools run on it to see what they can salvage from the internal drive. The internet recovery option downloads the version of the OS which was originally shipped with your iMac (Lion would be about right), it will install and then your iMac will be exactly as it was when you first unboxed it, no user account, no applications, and certainly no data! Whatever you do, if you want any chance of ever getting your data back - DON"T TRY A RECOVERY!Īnd I apologise for the shouting - but it really is important. Several eBay sellers offer those for purchase. You also COULD get a bootable Yosemite installer on a USB thumb drive. That will assume that you have a bootable drive with the Yosemite installer - or you can download the Yosemite installer app, which should be available to you in the App Store/Purchased tab, assuming that you "bought" Yosemite through the App store when it was still the current system.

#WHAT FORMAT IS BEST FOR REIMAGUNG MY MAC OVER THE INTERNET? UPDATE#

If you CAN install Lion, then you may possibly be able to update to Yosemite again. If you CAN'T boot to your recovery system, that may be another symptom of a failing hard drive.īooting to internet recovery will give you the choice to reinstall the system which originally shipped with your iMac - Lion. If you can boot to your recovery system partition (booting with Command+r), that should offer a reinstall of your current system (10.10.5?). I hope you have a good backup of your drive. Internet recovery does not boot to your hard drive.Īs you have the intermittent flashing folder, and a shut down - those issues may mean that your hard drive is failing.