HELP! HD locked on reinstall!

[porter1995]

I'm on 10.9.5. and the Mac has been given to me from a family member who had it at work. I know now that's why the apple ID won't be working. Is there a way around this?

 

[Weaselboy]

I know now that's why the apple ID won't be working.

Yep... that's the issue. I think your best bet at this point is to just buy the Snow Leopard DVD from Apple and install that. That will get you into the App Store where you can upgrade further if you want.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard

 

[Thatkingmag]

I'm not quite sure how you got in this mess, but here is how to fix it. (I am assuming here there is not some underlying hardware issue that got all this started).

Hold command-option-r at boot and select your wifi when asked. Then you will see a spinning globe while the recovery utility downloads and installs. Once that is done you will see the recovery screen. From there launch Terminal from the Utilities menu and enter the line below exactly like I have it, including the quotes. That will blow off the Fusion drive.

diskutil cs delete "Fusion Drive"

Now quit Terminal and launch Disk Utility. You should see a screen like this offering to fix the Fusion drive. Go ahead and click Fix to rebuild the Fusion drive.

View attachment 610983

Now quit Disk Utility and click reinstall OS X at the top and wait for it to finish and restart. This will put you on the OS X version that came from the factory. You can update to El Capitan after if you like.

What you are seeing locked there in your second screenshot is the Recovery HD partition, and that is as it should be and not the problem. The problem is you borked the Fusion drive somehow and this will fix it.

[doublepost=1503088052][/doublepost]Good day..my computer is stuck on the apple logo now,after the spinning globe thing bro. What do I do then?

 

[Princesslucy]

If you did not do anything that might have caused this, and it did it all on its own, it sounds like you may have a bad drive there. The operating system would not just disappear like that for no reason.

If it boots to recovery, what do you see if you start Disk Utility? Can you see the internal drive?

I didn't do anything to cause that. Every time I boot it goes straight to recovery. This is what happens when I click on disk utility it gives me an internal physical disk called "Hitachi HTS7232232L9SA62 Media"

 

[Weaselboy]

I didn't do anything to cause that. Every time I boot it goes straight to recovery. This is what happens when I click on disk utility it gives me an internal physical disk called "Hitachi HTS7232232L9SA62 Media"

Can you run First Aid on the disk with Disk Utility? Does it show the Macintosh HD volume below the Hitachi part?
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[doublepost=1503088052][/doublepost]Good day..my computer is stuck on the apple logo now,after the spinning globe thing bro. What do I do then?

Did it just do this all on its own, or were you formatting the drive or something?

 

[haeri]

Hi.
I'm new to this forum and I'm in desperate need of help with my macOS installation.

I tried to install a new C++ compiler on a MacBook Pro Mid 2014 with macOS 12.4.6. Upon restart, the screen only showed the crossed circle (forbidden) without any further action.

I read this thread and tried almost all suggestions.

I started regular recovery with cmd+r
I started intenet recovery with cmd+alt+r
I started internet recovery to the shipped macOS (Yosimite) with shift-cmd-r​

In all cases, the new installation of macOS started up to the request to select the destination volumen. Here, no volume was shown at all.

In the latter two cases (internet recovery) I ran the Terminal command "diskutil cs list" and in both cases no logical drive was found. Using the "diskutil cs delete HDD-NAME" comman returns an error due to an unknown disk.
The Disc Utility from the recovery menu would show the internal SSDs name only very briefly before it disappears. So I cannot proceed with the repair or erase steps to entirely clean the system.

I tried installing OS X 10.11 from USB with the same result of a missing destination volume.

The computer was given to me by a co-worker and was linked to his appleID during the C++ compiler installation and the first recovery attempt. Maybe this spoils the new macOS installation?

I tried installing OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard as suggested to get rid of appleID issues, but the MacBook cannot install this old system.

I'd really appreciate any help or suggestions how to get my MacBook running again.

 

[Weaselboy]

Do a option-command-r boot to Internet recovery then open Terminal from the Utilities menu and run this command, then tell us what it says.

diskutil list

 

[haeri]

I ran the diskutil list command and now the SSD is listed. There are more disk image entries below, I assume one for each recovery attempt...

 

[Weaselboy]

I ran the diskutil list command and now the SSD is listed. There are more disk image entries below, I assume one for each recovery attempt...

Boot back to Internet recovery and run this command to delete the core storage volume.

diskutil cs delete ForWind_GS

The use Disk Util to erase the drive then reinstall.

All those smaller volumes are RAM disk virtual drives used temporarily by the installer, and normal.

 

[haeri]

The diskutil cs delete ForWind_GS command leads to this message:

ForWind_GS does not appear to be a valid Core Storage Logical Volume Group UUID or name​

 

[Weaselboy]

The diskutil cs delete ForWind_GS command leads to this message:

ForWind_GS does not appear to be a valid Core Storage Logical Volume Group UUID or name​

Try again except use that long string that begins with 06109.... use the whole string dashes and all.

So it would look like this except with your data.

diskutil cs delete 5E016367-92A5-4C55-BD90-83A57A0740D0

 

[haeri]

I tried that immediatey, but the result is the same message.

 

[Erdbeertorte]

I tried that immediatey, but the result is the same message.

Try it with:

diskutil cs deleteVolume disk2

 

[haeri]

Thanks for the advice.
I tried that, too. The message just changes to

disk2 does not appear to be a valid Core Storage Logical Volume UUID or disk
​

The two different commands yield slightly different messages, but are the same if used with "ForWind_GS", "disk2" or the number.

 

[Weaselboy]

Thanks for the advice.
I tried that, too. The message just changes to

disk2 does not appear to be a valid Core Storage Logical Volume UUID or disk
​

The two different commands yield slightly different messages, but are the same if used with "ForWind_GS", "disk2" or the number.

Gah!!

Try this in Terminal from Internet Recovery.

diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ DriveName /dev/disk0

 

[haeri]

Try this in Terminal from Internet Recovery.

Code:
diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ DriveName /dev/disk0

The output is:

Could not find disk for /dev/disk0​

 

[Erdbeertorte]

The output is:

Could not find disk for /dev/disk0​

Maybe you have to mount it before:

diskutil mountDisk disk0

 

[haeri]

I tried again this morning and when I started internet recoverey and used

diskutil cd delete ForWind_GS

it started showing a progress but returned an error

...
Started CoreStorage operation
Unmounting Logical Volumes
Destroying Logical Volume Group
Error -69783: Unable to delete the CoreStorage Logical Volume Group

If I try to mount the disk as suggested by Erdbeertorte, it returns an error:

Unable to find disk for disk0

 

[Weaselboy]

When in recovery, can you now see the disk in Disk Util?

Can you select the top part like in my screenshot and then erase?

 

[haeri]

When I'm in internet recovery, I can see the disk in Disk Util briefly, but it disappears as soon as i click it.

I'm currently trying to erase it when used in target mode with another Mac. It wasn't possible via Disk Util, but I try using the Terminal. It's still in progress...

 

[Weaselboy]

When I'm in internet recovery, I can see the disk in Disk Util briefly, but it disappears as soon as i click it.

I'm currently trying to erase it when used in target mode with another Mac. It wasn't possible via Disk Util, but I try using the Terminal. It's still in progress...

This all seems really odd, and I can't think of anything you could have done that would cause this. I'm starting to wonder if you have a failing drive.

 

[Princesslucy]

Can you run First Aid on the disk with Disk Utility? Does it show the Macintosh HD volume below the Hitachi part?
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Did it just do this all on its own, or were you formatting the drive or something?

It does let me run first aid, although it won't load fully, it says "checking the EFI system portions folder content", i have left first aid running for over an hour and it's just stuck on that. It did this all on its own, I have never tried to do anything that has to do with the operating system (except upgrading) or the hard drive. I don't see anything that says Macintosh hd.

 

[Weaselboy]

It does let me run first aid, although it won't load fully, it says "checking the EFI system portions folder content", i have left first aid running for over an hour and it's just stuck on that. It did this all on its own, I have never tried to do anything that has to do with the operating system (except upgrading) or the hard drive. I don't see anything that says Macintosh hd.

It sounds like you have a failed drive there.

 

[Princesslucy]

It sounds like you have a failed drive there.

Oh damn. What would be my options then? Could I buy a new drive? Do you know how much that would be? Or do you think if have to buy a whole new computer?

 

[Weaselboy]

Oh damn. What would be my options then? Could I buy a new drive? Do you know how much that would be? Or do you think if have to buy a whole new computer?

You can just replace the drive for about $100 US. Just grab any SATA 2.5" laptop drive or get the same one like this. It is fairly easy to swap in the new drive on that 2009 model.