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HELP! HD locked on reinstall!

Awww! Don't say that lol and I do not have the Lion installer DVD but i do have a Mac OS X Leopard Install DVD. Will have downgrade.
 
Can you please tell me a quick brief on how to boot the DVD properly so i wont mess things up again. Thank you in advance.
 
Put the DVD in then reboot and hold the C key... that should get you to the installer where you can use Disk Utility to erase the drive and install.
 
I think its stuck? Its been like that for awhile now.
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Weaselboy said:
Put the DVD in then reboot and hold the C key... that should get you to the installer where you can use Disk Utility to erase the drive and install.
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Im sorry to bother but dont know what to do?
 

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Ive noticed you've been helping people for about a year now. I was wondering, after you're done helping Joseph07 you could help me. Keep up the good work!
 
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Sure... just post your question and include the year and model Mac you have. :)
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My iMac is late 2009 and recently my Mac would take too long to boot up, eventually it stopped booting up. My only option was to boot into recovery mode. On recovery mode I decided to wipe my Mac since it some how reached its storage limit, after that I installed OS X base system and now I cannot reinstall macOS due to my disk being locked. Everything except First aid, Info and (Partition, which I cannot do anything with at all) is grayed out in disk utility.
 
please can you help me ?
 

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Kürde said:
no I can't erase
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From recovery open Terminal from the Utilities menu and run each of these two commands and tell me the output of each command.

Code: 
diskutil list

diskutil cs list

What lead up to this and why are you reformatting?
 
Diskutil list
#: type name size Indentifier
0: GUID_partition_scheme *160.0 GB Disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: apple_HFS 160GB 159.2 GB disk0s2
3: apple_boot Recovery HD 650.0MB disks03
[doublepost=1488298123][/doublepost]When i enter
diskutil cs list it's coming no corestoage logical.volume groups found
 
Kürde said:
Diskutil list
#: type name size Indentifier
0: GUID_partition_scheme *160.0 GB Disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: apple_HFS 160GB 159.2 GB disk0s2
3: apple_boot Recovery HD 650.0MB disks03
[doublepost=1488298123][/doublepost]When i enter
diskutil cs list it's coming no corestoage logical.volume groups found
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When in recovery, what message to you get when you try to erase the lower 160GB volume?

Can you explain what lead up to all this and why you are reformatting to begin with?
 
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So I went to erase and reinstall OS X. When I go to reinstall OS X my
Only option is to choose to reinstall it on OS X Base system. That is greyed out and says this disk is locked.

How would I go about fixing this so I can reinstall OS X.

P.S. there were no issues with my Mac. Just reset every year to keep clean
 
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Caleb1331 said:
So I went to erase and reinstall OS X. When I go to reinstall OS X my
Only option is to choose to reinstall it on OS X Base system. That is greyed out and says this disk is locked.

How would I go about fixing this so I can reinstall OS X.

P.S. there were no issues with my Mac. Just reset every year to keep clean
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That base system is a virtual image of the installer that is loaded in memory and that part is normal. But otherwise, can you see the internal drive in Disk Utility?

What year and model Mac are you using?
 
I can't see anything. Macintosh HD doesn't even show up.

Mid 2012 MacBook Pro

Thanks for the help :)
 
Caleb1331 said:
I can't see anything. Macintosh HD doesn't even show up.

Mid 2012 MacBook Pro

Thanks for the help :)
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Try using Internet recovery. Hold command-option-r at boot and select your wifi then you will see a spinning globe while the recovery utility downloads. Then the recovery screen will come up. From there start Disk Utility and tell me if you can see the internal drive. If you cannot, you likely have either a failed drive or a bad internal drive cable.
 
Weaselboy said:
Try using Internet recovery. Hold command-option-r at boot and select your wifi then you will see a spinning globe while the recovery utility downloads. Then the recovery screen will come up. From there start Disk Utility and tell me if you can see the internal drive. If you cannot, you likely have either a failed drive or a bad internal drive cable.
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I tried that last night and it didn't finish. Had an error code. I'll try it again today. Thanks again
[doublepost=1489002738][/doublepost]I tried that last night and it didn't finish. Had an error code. I'll try it again today. Thanks again
 
Weaselboy said:
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.

Code: 
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.

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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.
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NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD EVER DO THIS IN MY LIFE. I HAVE TO SING UP JUST TO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!! YOU SAFE ME! God bless you.
 
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