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My 2015 iMac crashed today, cannot be powered up and the price to fix it means I am buying a new computer. The problem is that my Plex media server is on that iMac and I do not know how to get access to my material. Is there anything that I can do to access it in this situation.
I believe you can, by striping out HDD and putting it in a Enclosure. From your post above I’m guessing it’s the Logic board that has failed. Are your sure it is not a power supply as there not that expensive to have replaced?
Thanks for the reply. I think it is the logic board as well and it would be my second one in the past 18 months. AS for stripping out the HDD and putting it in an Enclosure, that would be beyond my ability. So does that mean that when I get my new computer and I want to install my plex media server and log into it, my account and content would be on the new computer? Or because I was unable to uninstall Plex media server on my broken computer, my content is lost?
Without the enclosure method it would be lost. As for striping out your HDD, I would go to a third party repairer to check if it is a logic board, if so offer them the iMac as parts if he extracts your HDD data for you. Nothing lost in asking. Failing that option, there are plenty tutorials online how to remove a HDD. I actually did it on a 2011 iMac and it worked a charm, I actually still have it in an enclosure and still works, don’t use it anymore though.
I had 2015 iMac, lost one logic board due to two faulty Dim slots. (Warranty). The second time it would not start up last year. I know as I gifted it to my son. It was a power supply, it was not an expensive fix and it is still going strong as I paid for a Samsung SDD install in 2019. Got to love SDD
Now all this advice or options are dependent on use case, if you use it a lot I would go new with at least a 512 SSD and buy a External USB HDD 6 or 8TB when on special.
OK…thanks for the advice and I will look into extracting the HDD, either by a third-party or giving it a go. Much appreciated.
And once you get it out (I put mine in an external USB HDD Dock from Pluggable or OWC) and have access to your spare drive data, there’s help in Articles | Move an Install to Another System in case you haven’t seen it.
