I found an iMac in the middle of a busy street a while back, and grabbed it to hopefully return it to its owner, but unfortunately the screen was completely ruined since it had likely fallen off a car going 50 mph. I figured I could just hook it up to an external monitor to see the name on the screen and see if I could find a way to contact the person, but nothing has been showing up on my external monitor. So I figured MacBooks must have some kind of feature where you can’t see the screen until logged in? How do I get into the computer without seeing the screen?
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iMac external monitor with broken screen
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Pull the hard drive from the machine and hook it up to a USB adapter (OWC sells the adapter) and attach it to your Mac or PC. If you have a Mac, the drive will appear as an external hard drive. You might be able to see who owns the machine that way if the hard drive is not encrypted.