HELP! HD locked on reinstall!

[Weaselboy]

i was away for a moment i'm working on this now. for some reason i never seen the globe all the times i tried before its loading now. i will edit the post with the new info

If you are seeing the globe for the first time, you may be able to format now. Once the recovery screen comes up, start Disk Util and go to the erase tab then select the drive itself at the very top of the left column then erase to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Then quit Disk Util and see if you can install.

 

[infowarrior1]

awesome! i think this is working now your awesome brother. want to help others i'm on call if you need me. going to see what i can do now. not even sure the process is there a link you recommend
[doublepost=1509217464][/doublepost]ok i just erased the partition that appeared to have the os in extended partition instead of the whole drive. and now i went to recovery internet and its loading. thanks again. your awesome where the donation site

 

[Lucyanna118]

You have something odd going on there. Normally there would be only one core storage volume listed that is the Fusion'd single logical volume.

Run this and tell me what it says. This will show the layout of the core storage volume.

diskutil cs list

[doublepost=1509811027][/doublepost]I am suffering the same issue! Please help! Here's what mine is saying after running your commands

 

[Weaselboy]

[doublepost=1509811027][/doublepost]I am suffering the same issue! Please help! Here's what mine is saying after running your commands

It looks like somehow you got the installer copied over to the main drive.

Can you tell me what year and model Mac you are in and a little about how you got to this point?

 

[Lucyanna118]

It looks like somehow you got the installer copied over to the main drive.

Can you tell me what year and model Mac you are in and a little about how you got to this point?

It's a 2006 MacBook white.
I deleted the partition and wrote over it with a USB flash installer.
Thanks for your help.

 

[Weaselboy]

It's a 2006 MacBook white.
I deleted the partition and wrote over it with a USB flash installer.
Thanks for your help.

Okay.... so what OS version do you have on the USB key?

You should be able to option key boot to the USB key then erase the internal drive with Disk Util, then install.

 

[Lucyanna118]

Okay.... so what OS version do you have on the USB key?

You should be able to option key boot to the USB key then erase the internal drive with Disk Util, then install.

It's OS X Lion
I tried to Option key the USB key but it's not coming up as an option. I tried to erase the HD but it won't work any which way.

 

[Weaselboy]

I tried to Option key the USB key but it's not coming up as an option

Lion should work on that model. If it won't option key boot to the USB key, then you likely have something wrong with the USB key installer. Do you still have the Snow Leopard DVD you could use to install maybe?

 

[Lucyanna118]

Lion should work on that model. If it won't option key boot to the USB key, then you likely have something wrong with the USB key installer. Do you still have the Snow Leopard DVD you could use to install maybe?

No, I don't have anything. Is there anything I may have to do to the key to make it work?

 

[Weaselboy]

No, I don't have anything. Is there anything I may have to do to the key to make it work?

Not really... you would need access to another Mac and the Lion installer to make a USB key. I know there are people on Amazon that sell them premade, so that might be a way to go.

 

[Lucyanna118]

Not really... you would need access to another Mac and the Lion installer to make a USB key. I know there are people on Amazon that sell them premade, so that might be a way to go.

Yeah, that's exactly what I did . Thanks for your help

 

[Jwilliams9]

It looks like somehow you got the installer copied over to the main drive.

Can you tell me what year and model Mac you are in and a little about how you got to this point?

I think this same thing happened to me when my computer was trying to install High Sierra. Ive been trying to fix it all day but nothing in the Apple support and on all the forums is working. Most recently tried the Internet recovery but it gets stuck on the gray Apple screen.

 

[Weaselboy]

I think this same thing happened to me when my computer was trying to install High Sierra. Ive been trying to fix it all day but nothing in the Apple support and on all the forums is working. Most recently tried the Internet recovery but it gets stuck on the gray Apple screen.

Was everything working fine before you tried to install High Sierra?

 

[Jwilliams9]

Was everything working fine before you tried to install High Sierra?

Yes but something similar happened the last time it was allowed to do an automatic update too. I was able to remove the update but must have forgot to shut off the auto. So at this point the internet recovery created a disk image so I was able to erase and change the format of the main disk so I am trying to install os to it right now. This is my third try.

 

[Kobrist]

Hi weaselboy,
I have read through this whole forum and you obviously know what your talking about. I am hoping you can help me! A few days ago my iMac, about 2010, stopped booting all the way up. We wiped the Macintosh HD and now can not get it to reinstall as the OS X base system is locked. I have tried to login with internet recovery but it ends in a circle with a line through it. Any thoughts on possible fix? Thank you so much!
[doublepost=1510534545][/doublepost]What do you do if you can’t login through internet recovery?

 

[Weaselboy]

Hi weaselboy,
I have read through this whole forum and you obviously know what your talking about. I am hoping you can help me! A few days ago my iMac, about 2010, stopped booting all the way up. We wiped the Macintosh HD and now can not get it to reinstall as the OS X base system is locked. I have tried to login with internet recovery but it ends in a circle with a line through it. Any thoughts on possible fix? Thank you so much!
[doublepost=1510534545][/doublepost]What do you do if you can’t login through internet recovery?

When you are in Internet recovery it is normal for that base system to be locked. That is the recovery utility running in a virtual drive in RAM you are seeing.

So you can get to recovery and cannot see the disk drive?

If that is the case, from what you described about it stopping booting all on its own, you may have a failed drive there.

 

[Kobrist]

I can’t get into internet recovery, it looks like it will boot into it (I see the globe spinning) but then it ends in the gray circle with the slash through it.

In regular recovery I can see the OS X base system drive but it’s locked when I try to reinstall the os to it.

Is a failed drive fixable or is it a new computer?

 

[Weaselboy]

Is a failed drive fixable or is it a new computer?

Any Apple repair shop can install a new drive for you fairly easily.

 

[dankogr]

Hello I’ve been having a very similar problem I went to erase my HD and reset as a fresh install. After erasing my hard drive when I went to download Sierra my drive was locked. I followed some commands on here diskutil cs delete “Macintosh HD”, now my problem is that it is saying I don’t have any core storage drive and when I boot into recovery mode it can not download Sierra either. Any help?

 

[Weaselboy]

Hello I’ve been having a very similar problem I went to erase my HD and reset as a fresh install. After erasing my hard drive when I went to download Sierra my drive was locked. I followed some commands on here diskutil cs delete “Macintosh HD”, now my problem is that it is saying I don’t have any core storage drive and when I boot into recovery mode it can not download Sierra either. Any help?

Why did you start all this to begin with? Was there some problem your Mac was having?

 

[dankogr]

Why did you start all this to begin with? Was there some problem your Mac was having?

Yes my MAC was randomly freezing and then when restarting I was getting the grey folder with the question mark. I could just go a recovery reboot, chose my start up disk, and everything would be fine. Then a few days later it would do the same thing. Figured maybe a completely factory reset and new install may help

 

[Weaselboy]

Figured maybe a completely factory reset and new install may help

Not likely... what you are describing sounds like a drive or maybe drive cable getting ready to fail. Unless you got in there and erased a system file or something, there is no reason the OS would just disappear like that and require a reinstall.

 

[dankogr]

Not likely... what you are describing sounds like a drive or maybe drive cable getting ready to fail. Unless you got in there and erased a system file or something, there is no reason the OS would just disappear like that and require a reinstall.

so is there no way to assign the drive as core storage?

 

[Weaselboy]

so is there no way to assign the drive as core storage?

I'm not sure what you mean? Some drives are converted to core storage as part of the OS install, but it sounds like you do not have a core storage setup there.

 

[Kellyray1969]

I have been sifting through this thread for a few days and have tried several things to no avail.

I have a mid 2010 MacBook Pro. I was running Sierra with no issues until I tried to update to high Sierra.

The update was fine until it rebooted. I got the grey screen with the slash circle that would flash the Apple logo once in a while. Just in case I let it sit overnight which didn’t help.

I rebooted several time and got the same thing.

I then tried disk utility first aid and everything checked out except the the hard drive which says “the volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely, file system check exit code is 8, updating boot support partitions for the volume as required, file system verify or repair failed, operation failed...”

Since the hard drive was fine before the update I am assuming the update corrupted the OS or some kind of boot sector.

So I tried restore in the disk utility, but it wants to erase the drive which is not an option, I need the data on the drive and don’t have a recent backup.

So I looked at the internet recovery, but when I go into that it does not give me an option to pick a wireless network it just goes directly into recovery. I also tried connecting directly to the router, but same result.

I did see on another site some info on using terminal to fix this, but it was not clear as to what they were doing and I don’t want to delete anything.

So can anyone help me to get any OS reinstalled without losing data? Or installing an OS onto a new HD so I can use the drive currently in the computer as an external drive so I can save my data.

I think I have covered everything, if not please be nice and ask. I am new here and just need a little help. Thanks