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IMPORTANT!! My mac WILL NOT boot at all no matter the command. Believe me no commands work whatsoever as I have been on the journey of trying to get this thing to boot for almost two weeks now. Any feedback is appreciated. Update (07/13/2018) Thank you allot for the reply! As an IT worker will this work for my windows pc? Specs: i7 7700K Gigabyte X399 Designare EX ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Corsair 2x16GB Vengeance RGB DDR4-2666 Samsung 970 Pro 1TB PCIe M.2 Samsung 970 Evo PCIe 2TB M.2 Thermaltake Floe Dual Riing RGB 280 Seasonic Prime Ultra Titanium SSR-1000TR Microsoft Windows 10 Node 202 Case Do I need anything extra to “dock” this hard drive? Also please send me a link to the cheapest docking station available. Thanks!

Hi, I work for as an intern for this IT company here, and we always use a hard drive docking station to make backups and recover data. A example found here In the iMac you have you can easily take it apart and remove the harddrive and put it in a docking station, the only catch to it all is that you have to have acces to a secondary pc. A guide how to take the iMac apart can be found here: iMac Intel 20" EMC 2133 and 2210 Hard Drive Replacement

If you can turn on but it won’t boot then make a live Ubuntu USB, insert and turn on, when the chime ring press alt and a screen with the units apears, select the Ubuntu USB, then select “try without install”, then you can access some files from there to backup. If your Mac won’t turn on at all, then you have to dissasembly the Mac and take out the HD as Niels sugest. Update (07/13/2018) You don’t need to buy a dock station to connect a HD to your PC if it’s a one or two time event, just search a SATA cable that maybe you have lying around (or buy it for few euros) and connect the hard drive to your PC motherboard and power supply. To read files from Windows you need to install HFS Explorer, it’s free: http://www.catacombae.org/hfsexplorer/ Without HFS Explorer Windows will ask you to format DON’T DO IT. Yo read the HD in your PC don’t even need to install the Mac hard drive inside it if you don’t let unatended it while you’re making the backup of your files, Windows can be used with the case open, just be careful with pets and childs don’t come close while you’re on it.