Macintosh HD 'Locked' when trying to do complete reinstall Mavericks.

Yup, just reformat the HD using Disk Utility. Click Erase and it will reformat it then go through the OS set up again.

Taraaaa! The Setup process asks me "How do you want to transfer your information?"

and gives an option of

>From another Mac

>From a windows PC

>From time machine or other disk

>Dont transfer now

Any idea as to which of the three im supposedd select?

You'll have to determine that. There is no 'correct' choice that fits everyone.

From another Mac then select the HD you want to recover your files from and transfer them to the external HD.

I tried so hard to unlock the HD my password is refused. No way to unlock the encrypted Macintosh HD 😟 but now I'm trying what you posted. How will it transfer the files from the locked HD to the external ? Is it going to ask me for the password again?

Thank you so much 🙂 🙂

Hi, one question how do i select HD? When i go to transfer information to this MAC screen, i select from another MAC y starts thinking and thats it, i can't select anything.

Thank you.

You are not migrating from another Mac, but a volume that is attached, be it USB or Firewire, so choose "From Time Machine or another disk". The Mac will find all other disks with operating systems on them, present you with options to migrate accounts, applications, and other items. To boot from the external, anytime you have a bootable disk connected, you simply hold down on the option key on startup. You will see hard drive icons with any operating systems you have attached. If you miss the first chance to migrate, you can go to /Applications/Utilities/Migration Assistant to migrate after that point, you do not need to reinstall the OS.

I followed all the steps and now I have a new osx installed on external hard drive. However I am not able to transfer my files from Macintosh HDD. During the migration steps it says "looking for sources" and kind of stuck in there. In the finder I can see the main HDD but I cannot see my files in there. From the get info I can see the HDD is not empty.

Any help on this issue would be life saver. please, any suggestions?

I also am having this problem, I was wondering if you ever figured it out?

I figured it out, Just click on "Don't Transfer now". Open up your laptop using the External Hard Drive that you created with OS X. When you computer boots up on the External Hard Drive go to Finder > Devices ( On the grey side bar to the left ) > Macintosh HD ( or the Hard Drive that is corrupted). Once this Hard Drive is selected go under the Users file and copy the Users file into the External Hard Drive. If you have another computer I would suggest testing the files on the external HD to see if they will open, before doing the level 7 wipe on your laptop.

Hi Taramason.. I need your help

I was trying to reinstall my Macbook Pro and got strucked in between

From OS X Utilities window i opened Disk Utilities and Erased Macintosh HD

Then i selected Reinstall mac OS X and followed instruction i was asked to enter my user id and passward which i entered corectly and after that it showing ''This item is temporarily unavailable...'' Try again later..

Can u please help me to exit OS X Utilities so i can use my macbook