On Saturday, just a few minutes after wrapping up a Zoom meeting with over 80 participants, the power went out in our neighborhood. What started out as just a minor inconvenience became much worse for me when I discovered that my iMac’s hard drive had been damaged beyond repair when the power was cut.
After trying a number of ways to recover the disk, Alex and I determined that we would have to replace it. I decided to make a bit of lemonade out of the lemons by at least replacing what had been a spinning hard drive with an SSD. We thought you might enjoy this video of the repair.
https://youtu.be/0bY17eoEjWM
All went well thanks to the great instructions at iFixit and the supplies from OWC and Micro Center. Now we get to see how much longer I can keep this iMac going.