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zorox

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Jan 6, 2019
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My imac is stuck in a reboot loop. I give in my login details and it boots and then its restarts.

ofcourse i didnt make a backup is there a way i can fix this.

extra details

imac 2009

Edit: tried booting from usb in recovery trying to instal el capitan. When i do Os recovery its cant connect to the apple server to verify my apple id even with a utp cable

tried to do a disk EHBO, its fails.
 
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My imac is stuck in a reboot loop. I give in my login details and it boots and then its restarts.

ofcourse i didnt make a backup is there a way i can fix this.

extra details

imac 2009

Edit: tried booting from usb in recovery trying to instal el capitan. When i do Os recovery its cant connect to the apple server to verify my apple id even with a utp cable

tried to do a disk EHBO, its fails.
you don’t want recovery mode, you want to boot from the USB. Once it starts, just run the installer. It should resurrect your system.
 
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