Installed the first beta for Ventura and it completely bricked my iMac. Did all the usual stuff, DFU, SMC reset etc. I know I'll need to wipe and start over, but how to recover data when it won't boot or go into recovery or target disk mode or anything else (just endless reboots into internet recovery). Do I have to open it up and pull the disk?
Interestingly the beta and all subsequent ones all worked fine on my MBP
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Installed on my 2018 MBP without issue.
Installed on my 2020 BTO i7 27" iMac, and appeared to install fine but on reboot.... nothing. Eventually goes to internet recovery endless loop.
Tried safe mode: didn't work
Tried target disk mode: acted normally, but no volumes show up
Tried Revive: Acted like it worked, but just went into endless internet recovery loop
Appears that there is no Mac disks at all now - no main partition, no recovery partition, nothing. Interesting that in revive mode with configurator, I can see the boot camp partition which still works fine (and is how I'm typing this) but the Mac side seems to have been obliterated. I wouldn't be too concerned, but there's a couple files I'd really like to recover. Any way to at least access or restore the file system at least to recover my stuff? Any chance that internet recovery mode will get fixed to address this? (Curious as to root cause of this issue too - especially since both the regular and restore partitions are not visible)
Any ideas?
I have Windows on an SSD, and after changing boot security I can boot to it. I downloaded the drivers in MacOS, and dropped them on the windows desktop. When I run the driver installers in windows, it starts up but just hangs. Is there another way to install the drivers? Bootcamp works, but no bluetooth, audio etc and just the basic windows video drivers.