How to IMac G5 Does Not Boot Up and Data Loss Occurs

Jan 11, 2011 03:49 AM

Apple offers a wide range of desktops and laptops to fulfill your personal as well as business requirements. Among all desktop series, iMac is the most popular and widely used one. It has a bunch of features and stylish look. This computer is designed for both home and office users. iMac has four major modes, such as iMac (Intel-based), iMac G3, iMac G4, and iMac G5. However, in some situations, iMac G5 may crash and make your precious data inaccessible. At this point, you need to opt for Mac data recovery solutions to retrieve your inaccessible data.

iMac G5 employs PowerPC process architecture. Other system specifications of iMac G5 include V .92 modem, 10/100BASE-T Ethernet port, and video-out port. However, under some situations, iMac G5 might stop responding at startup and cannot boot up. This problem usually occurs due to issues with operating system and put you in need of Mac recovery solutions. The problem may also occur due to hard drive or external hard drive issues.

Find out cause of this problem-

  • To check out whether the problem is caused by external hard drive, you are required to first disconnect all Ethernet, USB, and FireWire devices. Then reconnect all devices one bye on to your iMac and reboot the system. If you face the same problem after connecting a specific device, then it has to be replaced. The problem can be due to faulty cable as well.
  • Corruption to system software can also lead to this problem. At this point, boot your system using Mac OS X installation disk. If your computer starts properly, then the problem is caused by corrupt operating system and fresh installation of Mac OS X is required.
  • If your system is still unbootable and hard drive is invisible, the disk might be damaged. In such situations, you can try repairing the hard drive using Disk Utility to perform Mac Data Recovery.
  • If none of the above methods work, then you will have to replace the hard drive. But in this case, Mac recovery is required to extract data from damaged disk.
  • You can easily perform file recovery Mac using Mac file recovery software. Such Apple OS X recovery applications are designed to recover Mac data in all data loss situations. The HFS+ recovery tools are totally safe and easy to use.

Stellar Mac Data Recovery is the most comprehensive Mac data recovery tool to recover Mac files from hard drive, USB drive, FireWire drive, memory card, and other storage media.

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