Originally Posted by
datlas
I am afraid the hard drive is not working. The computer is only 8 years old. They don’t make them like they used to!
That happened to my iMac. Hard drive wore out. It was around the same age. Fortunately, my GF at the time worked with a guy who was a real genius. He opened up the thing, extracted the hard drive and was able to save all my photos with the help of software you could license for about $75. That's a fraction of what a data recovery service would likely have charged. When he attached the drive to some diagnostic tool he said it was the most messed up drive he had ever seen.