![]() The only option I have is to get the current hard drive out of there. ![]() ![]() I've tried numerous troubleshooting forums and suggestions but because of the failing hard drive I'm unable to clone my files, unable to download the applicable OS from the App Store, nothing. I've already backed up my important files I want to keep to a USB. I've already formatted my SSD as a boot disk. Select your external hard drive and click Continue. When you arrive on the drive selection screen, click Show All Disks. I can begin downloads but they won't finish and the one time it did finish it said the file was corrupted and wouldn't let me install it. Assuming your Mac is compatible with Monterey, here’s what you need to do to install macOS on your external hard drive: Open Finder. The machine comes on and the screen comes on and goes to the folder with a question mark and I can hear the dvd drive at startup as well. The hard drive was bad and they had it removed, so I dont have the original hard drive or the drive bracket. ![]() IF you can do this, it will be A BIG STEP towards getting the iMac running again. I purchased a iMac 24' EMC2211 from a friends sister. I've spent probably 4 hours trying different ways to get Mac OS Sierra, El Capitan, Snow Leopard and Lion installed onto my SSD via the App Store. The Mac really doesn't care much about booting from an external drive, so long as the drive is ok and has a good copy of the OS on it. Long story short I cannot clone the failing drive, I cannot boot into internet recovery mode either to install the OS onto my SSD. So my stock HDD is failing and I bought a 500GB SSD to replace it with. First off I'm not crazy- I've just literally never done this and I like to know every detail.
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