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

I tried to install mavericks and found out my HD was corrupted. I repaired it and want to do a reinstall of Mavericks however when I go to select install location it says my Macintosh HD is locked. Any tips?

MacBook Pro 13” 2.4 GHz 250 GB HDD, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Oct 24, 2013 8:15 PM

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

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  • by stacs13,

    stacs13 stacs13 Apr 7, 2014 3:50 PM in response to taramason
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    Apr 7, 2014 3:50 PM in response to taramason

    Crap I went through the process and didn't say yes to transfer file - is there a way to restart the process?  How to I delete the files from my exeternal hard drive to restart?

  • by taramason,

    taramason taramason Apr 7, 2014 3:52 PM in response to stacs13
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    Apr 7, 2014 3:52 PM in response to stacs13

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

  • by GinoAranda,

    GinoAranda GinoAranda Apr 19, 2014 2:18 PM in response to taramason
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    Apr 19, 2014 2:18 PM in response to taramason

    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?

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Apr 19, 2014 2:20 PM in response to GinoAranda
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    Apr 19, 2014 2:20 PM in response to GinoAranda

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

  • by GinoAranda,

    GinoAranda GinoAranda Apr 19, 2014 2:40 PM in response to taramason
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    Apr 19, 2014 2:40 PM in response to taramason

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  • by taramason,

    taramason taramason Apr 19, 2014 3:13 PM in response to GinoAranda
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    Apr 19, 2014 3:13 PM in response to GinoAranda

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

  • by Manal-jad,

    Manal-jad Manal-jad Apr 19, 2014 5:02 PM in response to cjtbhs
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    Apr 19, 2014 5:02 PM in response to cjtbhs

    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

  • by Pedro Tobar,

    Pedro Tobar Pedro Tobar Jul 10, 2014 6:51 PM in response to taramason
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    Jul 10, 2014 6:51 PM in response to taramason

    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.

  • by gggvt,

    gggvt gggvt Aug 8, 2014 5:55 PM in response to Pedro Tobar
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    Aug 8, 2014 5:55 PM in response to Pedro Tobar

    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.

  • by arif1101,

    arif1101 arif1101 Nov 22, 2014 9:02 PM in response to gggvt
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    Nov 22, 2014 9:02 PM in response to gggvt

    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?

  • by Snysta,

    Snysta Snysta Nov 28, 2014 11:17 PM in response to arif1101
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    Nov 28, 2014 11:17 PM in response to arif1101

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

  • by Snysta,

    Snysta Snysta Nov 29, 2014 8:04 AM in response to arif1101
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    Nov 29, 2014 8:04 AM in response to arif1101

    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.

  • by alwin.mdo,

    alwin.mdo alwin.mdo Dec 19, 2015 7:00 AM in response to taramason
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    Dec 19, 2015 7:00 AM in response to taramason

    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

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