Whatever you do, if you want any chance of ever getting your data back - DON"T TRY A RECOVERY!Īnd I apologise for the shouting - but it really is important. Several eBay sellers offer those for purchase. You also COULD get a bootable Yosemite installer on a USB thumb drive. That will assume that you have a bootable drive with the Yosemite installer - or you can download the Yosemite installer app, which should be available to you in the App Store/Purchased tab, assuming that you "bought" Yosemite through the App store when it was still the current system. If you CAN install Lion, then you may possibly be able to update to Yosemite again. If you CAN'T boot to your recovery system, that may be another symptom of a failing hard drive.īooting to internet recovery will give you the choice to reinstall the system which originally shipped with your iMac - Lion. If you can boot to your recovery system partition (booting with Command+r), that should offer a reinstall of your current system (10.10.5?). I hope you have a good backup of your drive. Internet recovery does not boot to your hard drive.Īs you have the intermittent flashing folder, and a shut down - those issues may mean that your hard drive is failing.
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