Any solution to bust-apart fusion drive data recovery on Imac?

[Amandaa Ripanykhazov]

I have been playing around with iboysoft data recovery solutions which
dont actually work for a couple of weeks, when suddenly my IMac started
to boot up into a desktop! I cant get it much past a login password
screen but frankly with all the supposed damage of a split-up fusion
drive, I am kinda shocked at getting this far!

This seems to have happened because I left the iMac partially booted,
where something keeps telling it to re-boot itself; and this has
happened enough times while unattended that eventually it HAS booted

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might get this computer to
boot up all the way while I have a Time Machine drive attached such that
I can get a backup prior to executing the Fusion-Reset procedure please?

[Alan Browne]

On 2024-01-22 13:12, Amandaa Ripanykhazov wrote:
> I have been playing around with iboysoft data recovery solutions which
> dont actually work for a couple of weeks, when suddenly my IMac started
> to boot up into a desktop! I cant get it much past a login password
> screen but frankly with all the supposed damage of a split-up fusion
> drive, I am kinda shocked at getting this far!

Can you boot into safe mode or internet recovery mode? Careful of the
later if you have data on your drive.

>
> This seems to have happened because I left the iMac partially booted,
> where something keeps telling it to re-boot itself;     and this has
> happened enough times while unattended that eventually it HAS booted
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might get this computer to
> boot up all the way while I have a Time Machine drive attached such that
> I can get  a backup prior to executing the Fusion-Reset procedure please?

See stuff below which might or might not lead you to the right place.
(This includes a link to iboysoft so that one is maybe burned...)

*** No guarantee it's safe. ***

Wish I could help more. I'll be re-purposing an iMac and that includes
replacing the hard drive. On that iMac changing to an SSD did not work
at all. Well, not completely sure, I could possibly re-install back to
whatever OS it came with originally (10.8 or 10.9) and then upgrade up
to Catalina. It's back to spinning disk for now.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LMIfdIDh7I

Repair disk?
https://iboysoft.com/mac-data-recovery/file-system-verify-or-repair-failed-disk-utility.html

https://canada.ifixit.com/products/imac-intel-27-late-2012-late-2019-ssd-upgrade-bundle

OWC: SSD card (not HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13pYn0AcGe0

OWC HDD
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDIM12Y960/

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[Your Name]

Assuming the main drive isn't dead, the best option would be to simply
erase the main drive and reinstall MacOS via either the normal Apple
Recovery mode or by using a USB drive which has the MacOS installer
(you will need another Mac to make one though). It depends on which Mac
you have as to how you boot into either of those other options.

Then, never ever use third-party "recovery" apps again. They simply do
not work.