iMac does not boot

Any help is appreciated to get my iMac up and running.


I have a fusion iMac from 2015. It has a 128 SSD and a 3 TB Hard drive. I am unable to boot it up because I get a circle with a line through it and it says support.apple.com/mac/startup. I went into Recovery mode and I can't reinstall MacOS because there is no disk drive available.


I looked at Disk Utility in the Recovery mode and see the following drives available:


  • Apple SSD SMO128 G 123 GB PC Internal Physical Disk
  • ST3000DM001 Media - 4.14 gb uninitialized


Disk Images:

Apple Disk Image (can partition) - 2.15 gb

OS X Base System (no erase, partition) - 2.01 GB


I tried to mount the ST3000M001 but it did not mount.


What should I do to reformat the drive so I can reinstall macOS Big Sur?







iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Oct 23, 2021 07:51 AM

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Posted on Oct 23, 2021 11:29 AM

Gentile wrote:

Could I try to fix a split Fusion drive as described here by using terminal?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207584

I would try those steps. However, it will erase all data, so I hope you have a backup.


Jack

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