Apple said ERASE my Hard Drive! [ iMac Crashes at Password Log-In | Data Recovery ]

My iMac would get to the Password screen but when I enter the password the mac would freeze. No amount or PRAM or NVRAM resetting would do the trick. A clean OS install didn't work. I removed physical RAM in case that was the issue. Nothing helped. Turns out importing the data onto a new drive solved the problem. Such an easy solution should be on Apple's solution radar. It's such a catastrophic blow to lose a drive. Sorry if you are dealing with the same but maybe this will help you.

Worked out because I installed a larger drive that was Solid State and now the computer is running better than ever.

The backup that failed was a Western Digital MyCloud. Works great, until it doesn't.

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