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Recovery HD is locked

Trying to reinstall startup disc but macOS High Sierra says Recovery HD is locked- what do I do now?

iMac 27″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Sep 22, 2020 12:56 PM

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You can't & don't want to install to the Recovery Partition,I can't read what the other one says but normally you install to Macintosh HD unless you renamed that one.

Posted on Sep 24, 2020 2:11 PM

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Recovery HD is locked

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