imac is crashing on loading

My late 2011 imac is crashing on the loading screen about 1/3 of the way in. I had issues with it back in 2013 and ended up replacing the harddrive with an ssd. I'm not sure if the new hard drive has a recovery partition.

I tried to follow online instructions to boot into safe mode but it doesn't seem to work. I tried to hold shift after the startup sound but it doesn't do anything.

Is there anything I can do?

Thanks.