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I have an older imac that sits on the loading progress bar at or around 100% constantly.  Got into recovery mode once however it would freeze for 5 seconds then respond for a second then freeze for 5 seconds repeat that over and over until it seemed to just completely lock up.

 

Can't get it into Safe Mode either.

 

Is it hardware?  The case doesn't feel particularly hot, could it be overheating?

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Which particular iMac is this? If you aren't sure then you can post the serial number from the bottom of it. That would help a lot to figure out the issue. 

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

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Late 2012

Model A1418 (EMC 2544)

 

I should note the machine was given to me to get data of the drive.  It is pretty dusty on the outside but I've seen worse.  As I said the case on the back is warm but I can leave my hand on it so its not overly hot.  However I don't know if a imac case should warm up at all so I don't know if what I am feeling is normal or not.  Also no fan noise at all that I can tell.

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12 minutes ago, Coolmaster said:

Might be a dead drive. You can create an external MacOS installation on an external drive and boot off of that to get the data off the internal drive.

Oh didn't know that was possible.  Will give it a try, any idea where i can find the procedure to create the bootable drive?

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As an update was able to reinstall from an external drive.  HDD was extremely slow, suspect on its last legs.  Pulled it out and added SSD runs better than when it was new.  week later HDD was being used as a junk drive and it died totally.  I swear Apple time bomb their shit to fail intentionally or run very very slow.

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