IMac (Intel) :: HDD No Longer Visible After Yosemite Update - Critical Error
Dec 2, 2014
I have a later 2012 iMac 27". The computer was running slow for the past week or so. I decided to update to Yosemite today. The installation stated it had a critical error and the downloaded file was corrupted. It asked to re-download the file, and then the iMac froze. It went to a gray screen without a restart. I forced the iMac to restart. After the restart, a progress bar with the Apple symbol would come up and then the iMac would shut down. I have attempted to restart using Internet Recovery; however, the OSX will not show a drive to install to. I did another Internet Recovery and had Disk Utility come up, but it only sees a partition with approximately 2 gigs of the 3 terabytes I actually have. It seems as if iMac is not properly mounting the drive. I have two questions.
1) Is there some way to have the bios remount the drive and
2) if 1 is not possible, is it possible to recover the data off the drive?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
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Appstore automatically updated Safari to 8.0.2 this morning, but now I can't access the program. When I start Safari it takes a while to get going, a window opens for a moment with a spinning wheel and then the program crashes. I'm using a mid 2007 20" IMac (2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4GB of memoryrunning Yosemite.Â
The system error report which gets sent to Apple makes no sense to me, as I don't have any technical knowledge, but scrolling through the report I found this section which refers to something crashing,.
Thread 31 Crashed:: FTL Worklist Worker Thread
0  libllvmForJSC.dylib  0x0000000114f2cd50 DYLD-STUB$$std::__1::basic_string<char,
std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char> >::__init(char const*, unsigned long) + 0
1  dyld 0x00007fff6342cceb ImageLoaderMachO::doModInitFunctions(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&) + 265
2  dyld  0x00007fff6342ce78 ImageLoaderMachO::doInitialization(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&) + 40
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NVIDIA has released a critical Mac OS X driver update for the GeForce GTX 285 and Quadro FX 4800. It is recommended that the new drivers be installed immediately. Users must install the new drivers PRIOR to the next Mac OS X update after 10.5.7 in order to avoid system compatibility issues. The driver update is needed to prevent Mac OS X system issues and will affect users who plan to update to the next Mac OS X update after 10.5.7. Built into this driver is also improved graphics performance for both the GeForce GTX 285 and Quadro FX 4800. The latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 drivers are located at: [URL]. The latest NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 drivers are located at: [URL]
Installation Instructions:
For Safari users: Click download link above. Once the download is finished, the installer package will automatically start. Please follow the installer package instructions to complete.
For Firefox users: Click download link above. Choose "Open with DiskImageMounter.app (default)." Once the download is finished, the installer package will automatically start. Please follow the installer package instructions to complete.
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System Specs:
iMac 27" i7 3.4 Ghz (mid 2011) 12G Ram
Internal 1TB Apple HD
Internal OWC SSD 240G (main startup drive)Â
1. How do I recover from this?
2. Is anyone else running into this problem?
3. How long do the EFI updates normally take?
4. Shouldn't there be some sort of "progress bar" to indicate something is going on during this process? Or, if not, then perhaps a "WARNING!! This process will take up to two hours, during which you will receive no discernable feedback. Do not interrupt the process until more than 24 hours have passed with the spinning ball."Â Â
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