the disk is locked...cannot install lion
any one can help ?
Maybe, but you need to provide some information on the problem. What disk is locked?
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oh thanks. this is what is happening: i downloaded Lion from the app store and started install....then I am locked on a page that brings me nowhere and tells me that Maintosh HD is locked. Itried the utility disk to verify and repair but the repair option is unavailable.....dont know what to do ...
If it created a recovery partition, you would be able to boot to that with command-R
If not.... that is what backups and cloning are for.
And it is always good to have bootable backups (clone) before beginning.
Installing Lion to another drive is always an option too.
OS X Lion Install to Different Drive
OS X Lion: Unable to download OS X Lion wireless...
OS X Lion: Installer reports "This disk cannot be used to start up your computer"
Select your Macintosh HD. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. At the bottom is a section labeled Permissions and Sharing. The privileges associated with the drive will be listed and should be:
Owner=system with r/w privileges
Group=wheel with r/o privileges
Everyone with r/o privileges
Report what you find for your drive, please.
unfortunately I cannot access it. I have just the window "install Mac OS X " asking me where i want to install Mac OS X and there i see the icon of Macintosh HD stating that the disk is locked.
I may have deleted the Group wheel accidentally yesterday . would that impact ?
Yes.
Frank
any solution ?
Just look on your Desktop where you should see your hard drive's icon. You cannot delete the wheel group because it's a special Unix group.
Sounds like your hard drive is not partitioned.
To get back to normal.
Power off. Hold Option (alt). Power on. When you see disks, let go of Option. Sleect your disk of choice.
For the time being, I don't have any suggestions for getting Lion installed. Only to get out of this loop.
Just click the apple icon and resart disc. Once your desktop is back up run a softwear up date. Lion will take you to where you are now if this is not done. Then restart installing Lion it is that simple as i just found out sorting my girlfrinds Macbook. Now off to vent my anger at people tell others to make new 2nd hard discs and cos theres ard damaged ahhhh
the disk is locked...cannot install lion