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HELP! HD locked on reinstall!
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Can you tell us a little more about the Mac. What year model is it and how did you get to the point you are now? Please try and explain what you did step by step.
Hi Weaselboy.
I have read this discussion and followed your instruction for an internet recovery and hard drive formating ... it was very helpful and all the steps leaded to success.
Now, I am about to install Sierra. In the macOS Utilities window I click on "Reinstall macOS" and I click on "Continue" (agreeing to the terms of the licence), until I am asked to install Sierra on the hard drive.
And here is the problem: I get a message that it is "About 6 minutes remaining" for the installation. But the progression bar doesn’t move at all. I tried it a couple of time (cancel and redo the procedure). The first time the installation stopped at 12 seconds. Now it doesn’t go on at all ...
Do you think, you know what can be the reason?
Thank you for the advices till now and in advance for your answer.
I have read this discussion and followed your instruction for an internet recovery and hard drive formating ... it was very helpful and all the steps leaded to success.
Now, I am about to install Sierra. In the macOS Utilities window I click on "Reinstall macOS" and I click on "Continue" (agreeing to the terms of the licence), until I am asked to install Sierra on the hard drive.
And here is the problem: I get a message that it is "About 6 minutes remaining" for the installation. But the progression bar doesn’t move at all. I tried it a couple of time (cancel and redo the procedure). The first time the installation stopped at 12 seconds. Now it doesn’t go on at all ...
Do you think, you know what can be the reason?
Thank you for the advices till now and in advance for your answer.
How long did you wait at that stage for it to progress? I have read about people waiting up to an hour or so for it to move along. Did you perhaps not wait long enough?
Heyy I NEED HELP! I tried Factory resetting my imac and when i clicked on Disk utility i clicked on Restore instead of erase, when i tried to Download an os from the internet it says its locked like his^^^. I did what you said with terminal but it does not work, it is still locked . What can i do to fix it?
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I followed what you told him but my HD says something completely different
[doublepost=1493424871][/doublepost]When i go to Disk Utility "Erase" is greyed out,
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It does not look like you have a core storage volume on there. Start Disk Utility and go to the erase tab, then select the drive itself at the very top of the left column like in my screenshot. Then select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the dropdown and apply that format.
You will need to do this from Internet recovery (command-option-r boot)
Thank you so much ! My mac works again, Youre a true hero!
I bought my first macbook pro like a month ago and wanted to reinstall os. It's macbook pro 2009 15" i made bootable flash, format HD and never saw a light of desktop again
when I try to go for Internet recovery I hold cmd alt r but don't see any globe spinning. My terminal photosAnd when I try to boot it with flash plugged in and hold alt key I see only
Thanks in advance
Edit: mbp was running yosemite
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You 2009 model does not come with Internet (command-option-r boot) recovery.
Can you command- boot to regular recovery? From there start Disk Utility and go to the erase tab and try to format that OS X Base System partition to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Then try to reinstall.
Can you command- boot to regular recovery? From there start Disk Utility and go to the erase tab and try to format that OS X Base System partition to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Then try to reinstall.
Have you ever downloaded Yosemite under that AppleID? You will need to use an AppleID that was previously used to install Yosemite.
Then you are bit stuck. At this point, your easiest option would be to buy the Snow Leopard DVD from Apple and boot to that and erase the disk and reinstall. Then after that you could upgrade if you want.
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
I just looked at this thread tonight and from your post I am thinking I did something wrong. When choosing my drive to erase I did not highlight the line you have but the McIntosh HD underneath it. Since that time I re-installed Sierra, all my files from Time Machine. It ran great on Sunday night after I did all of the restoring but this morning it started getting buggy again. I'd click to read an email, spinning beach ball ... I'd open Excel, highlight the cell I wanted to type in, spinning beach ball. The computer itself is very slow.
I have had to reboot many times today. I ran Disk Utility repair to see if something had happened to my hard drive. Nothing was found wrong.
Last night I moved my Photo Library to an external drive and then deleted the library from the iMac, freed up 269Gb of files. I've had the Activity Monitor open at all times and most of the time memory used is below 3Gb.
It is not nearly as fast as it was before it crashed on Thursday. Before last Thursday I had zero problems with it. I do no play games on it, never watch tv on it, mostly photo editing, internet surfing and work with Excel.
So basically did I screw up by choosing the next line down McIntosh HD instead of the top line with the hard drive name and type?
My iMac was bought new in 2010, it was built Mid-Summer 2010, i3, 4Gb RAM, 500Gig HD.
No not at all. What you did just erases the Macintosh HD partition versus selected the drive above that erases the whole drive including the recovery partition. But if you just want to reinstall the same OS version you are now using, what you did works fine.
That spinning beach ball when doing simple things like you describe sounds a lot like a failing drive.
Have you installed any software lately that may have caused this, or did it just start all on its own?
It just did it on it's own. My intuition was telling me my drive was dying a slow death. So, last night over on the iMac section I told the story. I got a link from a poster that told me in a second, literally, that my drive was failing due to bad sectors, with a reason of old age.
I got some good years out of the computer after buying it new in October 2010. It's was built early-summer 2010.
Thanks for the explanation on those two lines for the hard drive in Disc Utilities.
Help! I'm having the same issue where I was trying to reset my computer to sell it. It's a 2011 MacBook Pro 15. I followed some instructions online to erase "macintosh Hd". I did that and went to reinstall macOS. However it's coming up that the disk is locked. I've been trying everything but I don't have many options. I attempted to change the format but it was greyed out. I took some pictures but they won't upload.
Once you get back in recovery, open Terminal from the Utilities menu, then run the two commands below one after the other. Then post the output of each command here so we can take a look.
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diskutil list
diskutil cs listI did this. I tried attaching the picture but it says the file is too large. Any thoughts?
It looks like somehow you copied the installer onto the main drive, and not you cannot do anything with that drive since you are booted to it.
Tyr getting to Internet recovery by holding command-option-r at boot. Select your wifi then you should see a spinning globe while the recovery utility downloads. Then you will see the recovery screen. Now use Disk Utility to erase the entire drive then try to reinstall.
Tyr getting to Internet recovery by holding command-option-r at boot. Select your wifi then you should see a spinning globe while the recovery utility downloads. Then you will see the recovery screen. Now use Disk Utility to erase the entire drive then try to reinstall.
It showed the spinning globe and said internet recovery but after about 10 minutes this popped up. I tried shutting it down and doing it again but it popped up right away
http://imgur.com/Uu0GWRK