Remember back in 2020 I opened my iMac and upgraded it with a Samsung EVO 1TB SSD. After I installed it was working ... [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/643017/Swapping+logicboards+and+compatibility+between+mid+2015+and+late+2015]
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Remember back in 2020 I opened my iMac and upgraded it with a Samsung EVO 1TB SSD. After I installed it was working ... [post|643017]
I moved to another location to work and left my iMac sitting on the table for about 2 years ... I came back for a holiday break and for my surprise the SSD was not showing up on the iMac as before, thats strange because I remember it was fully working and the iMac recognized it in Disk Utility but now it doesn't show up!
Anyway trying to solve this, by mistake, I invoked in Terminal this line "#diskUtil eraseDisk HSF+ mac disk0" thinking disk0 was the SSD... and BANG I erased my internal SATA Macintosh HD drive...
I have two problems to solve now:
To recover my data files from the SATA drive (I have a time machine backup from 2015.. to old) and to put the SSD working back again.
What can I do Dan??
Hope you can help me out on this!
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=== Update (08/09/2022) ===
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Hi Dan,
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So I have on my iMac two hard drives:
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# SATA internal HDD that came with the iMac - The one that was erased - It was running MAC OSX Catalina
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# The Samsung Evo SSD that i upgraded opening the iMac back in 2020 -It is not recognized by the iMac (but it was working in 2020)
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I dont know which version of Disk Utility i have used.. basically I have followed a tutorial on Youtube on how to the Mac show the SSD. I did all they said but erased the SATA main drive. I entered in the Mac Recovery mode and used the terminal to give those commands.
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From what you've said to recover my files i need to boot from a USB drive but how do it? I mean How can i make the bootable drive?
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I have a Macbook pro from 2011 that can help if necessary... And How can i use the Recovery software you've mentioned?
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Can I use a MACOSX DVD to boot? I have Two disc one with Snow Leopard and the other with 10.6.6. Will these Disk are of any use at all to boot the machine?
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Please guide me what do i need to do in order to recover the files!!
Remember back in 2020 i opened my imac and upgraded it with a Samsung Evo 1TB SSD.. well after i installed it was working... then i moved to another location to work and left my imac sitting on the table for about 2 years... I came back these days for a holiday break and for my surprise the SSD was not showing up on the imac as before... thats strange because i remember was fully working and the imac recogised it on Disk utility but now it doenst show up..
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Remember back in 2020 I opened my iMac and upgraded it with a Samsung EVO 1TB SSD. After I installed it was working ... [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/643017/Swapping+logicboards+and+compatibility+between+mid+2015+and+late+2015]
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Anyway tryng to solve this,by mistake,i invoked in Terminal this line "#diskUtileraseDisk HSF+mac disk0"thinking disk0 was the SSD... and BANG i erased my internal SATA Macintosh HD drive...
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I moved to another location to work and left my iMac sitting on the table for about 2 years ... I came back for a holiday break and for my surprise the SSD was not showing up on the iMac as before, thats strange because I remember it was fully working and the iMac recognized it in Disk Utility but now it doesn't show up!
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Now i have two problems to solve.. to recover my data files from the SATA drive (I have a time machine backup from 2015.. too old) and to put the SSD working back again...
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Anyway trying to solve this, by mistake, I invoked in Terminal this line "#diskUtil eraseDisk HSF+ mac disk0" thinking disk0 was the SSD... and BANG I erased my internal SATA Macintosh HD drive...
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I have two problems to solve now:
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To recover my data files from the SATA drive (I have a time machine backup from 2015.. to old) and to put the SSD working back again.
HI again Dan!!!
I have a problem man...
Remember back in 2020 i opened my imac and upgraded it with a Samsung Evo 1TB SSD.. well after i installed it was working... then i moved to another location to work and left my imac sitting on the table for about 2 years... I came back these days for a holiday break and for my surprise the SSD was not showing up on the imac as before... thats strange because i remember was fully working and the imac recogised it on Disk utility but now it doenst show up..
Anyway tryng to solve this, by mistake, i invoked in Terminal this line "#diskUtil eraseDisk HSF+ mac disk0" thinking disk0 was the SSD... and BANG i erased my internal SATA Macintosh HD drive...
Now i have two problems to solve.. to recover my data files from the SATA drive (I have a time machine backup from 2015.. too old) and to put the SSD working back again...
What can I do Dan??
Hope you can help me out on this!