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Late 2007 iMac has decided to break all of a sudden
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Use one of your other Macs, with a 8GB USB stick, and download Yosemite, and make a Yosemite installer with the following instructions:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/1...otable-os-x-10-10-yosemite-usb-install-drive/
Boot it up (holding down option key at start until the USB stick appears as a drive you can boot from) and go to Disk Utility, from there see if you can repair your hard drive (if it doesn't appear as a device in the list on the left side, then it's likely your hard drive is dead).
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/1...otable-os-x-10-10-yosemite-usb-install-drive/
Boot it up (holding down option key at start until the USB stick appears as a drive you can boot from) and go to Disk Utility, from there see if you can repair your hard drive (if it doesn't appear as a device in the list on the left side, then it's likely your hard drive is dead).