Imac won't boot

Clov!s said:
Replied :) I think royal mail are open Saturday so I'll post it then :)
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Drive came today so thanks for that :)

Unfortunately appears not to have helped. The thing insists on trying to boot to the hard drive thats knackered.

It won't boot into recovery mode when i do command + r
it won't boot into safe mode when I hold shift
It won't boot into a recovery mode usb stick
It won't boot off the DVD drive when i hold C
It won't boot into the hardwware test when i hold D

none of the above produce errors, the machine just ignores the input and carries on as if I hadn't pressed anything.

I had put this down to the keyboard having unpaired itself, , so got an old USB windows keyboard. Boot up by holding C to get it to boot of the DVD and it just hangs. No circle with a line through it, just plain hangs, and the keyboard stops working and it just sits there.

This thing is ****ed. Booked it into apple store on sunday to be looked at. Its ridiculous how much of a tantrum this thing is throwing. I could understand the drive failing as its a 5 year old mac. But my problems run far greater than just a failed drive as it won't boot from any other media.
 
So took it into apple store today and the drive is definitely knackered. It wouldn't boot into any of their diagnostics software either and when trying to force an OS repair through terminal just gave I/O errors.

However the apple store have agreed to replace the drive free of charge for me after I told them about having taken it in once already to have the graphics card replaced and the PSU on my time capsule going.

Amazing service from the apple store as usual
 
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