You will need a special tool to separate the bezel from the back. Luckily I found this info on how to make one out of an old gift card and it worked like a charm:
Good luck!
P.S. I was able to recover her photos (no backup, from 2006 to present) by plugging the iMac's SATA drive into my Windows XP box and using software called Transmac to copy stuff over! It has a trial period and it worked great. The disk could not be tested with spinrite either, just thunked a bunch of times and that was it.
Good luck!
P.S. I was able to recover her photos (no backup, from 2006 to present) by plugging the iMac's SATA drive into my Windows XP box and using software called Transmac to copy stuff over! It has a trial period and it worked great. The disk could not be tested with spinrite either, just thunked a bunch of times and that was it.