I do not totally know what my question here is. I am now running First Aid on it, just curious to see what if anything it can do there. A warning popped up and indicated that the drive could not be repaired. Once I booted to the external drive, I ran disk utility which I started at around 1400 hours, it is now 1500 hours and it just now found its hard drive. What I tried today was reinstalling the OS (failed), booting it with SpinRite and booting it from a 64GB external drive (worked). The Mac is completely unaware of the fact that it has a 500GB Western Digital HDD in it (which I can hear turning) and if I run Disk Utility, it will spend hours looking for that drive. What happened when I ran "Command+R" was somewhat depressing. ![]() ![]() However, after some reading on the internet and trying a variety of things booting to "Command+S" as well as "Command+R". It is still basically in that same state. Later that day, when I tried to turn it on, it turned on but wouldn't boot passed the Apple Screen with the small, gray progress bar. Luckily the computer was plugged into a surge protector. ![]() Immediately after doing the restart, the electricity for our home went out, it was only out for around a minute. The story surrounding this apparently sudden failure is that I was running an update of Safari that involved needing to do a restart. I have been using a late-2009 iMac (21.5") (it was running the latest pre-Sierra update, I do not remember the exact OS version) for somewhere in the area of six months now and have, overall, had no issues with it.
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