Yosemite cannot be installed on "Macintosh HD"

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.

Select

/var/log ▹ install.log

from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select

View ▹ Show Log List

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Is it possible that you had a Time Machine backup volume on this drive at some point?

If the problem was solved?

Here is extractes from my install.log.0.bz2 (becauase in install.log there is only one line : logfile tuend over due to size>1000K)

Jul 4 14:52:28 Nikolays-MacBook-Pro.local InstallAssistant[406]: No available package ref for compatibility update. Ignoring.

Jul 4 14:52:28 Nikolays-MacBook-Pro.local InstallAssistant[406]: Disk IADisk_10_6: disk0s2 Macintosh HD: failed volume-check: {

NSLocalizedDescription = "";

NSLocalizedFailureReason = "This disk is used for Time Machine backups.";

}

Jul 4 14:52:30 Nikolays-MacBook-Pro.local InstallAssistant[406]: Using product <OSSoftwareUpdateCatalogProduct> from product keys (null) at distance 25

Jul 4 15:32:59 Nikolays-MacBook-Pro newsyslog[422]: logfile turned over due to size>1000K

Installer reports “This Disk Cannot Be Used to Start Your Computer

Can't Install OS on Volume Used by Time Machine

I just had the exact same problem, SUPER simple solution, one click!

Go to Disk Utility, select 'Macintosh HD', and click the green button at the top of the window, "Enable Journaling". That's it.

After I clicked the green button, I reopened the OS X install application from the application folder and it had no problems! Worked for me!

I also have this problem on a Mid 2011 27 inch iMac running OS X 10.8.5

My Macintosh HD has never been used as a storage device for time machine. Time machine backups are all to external disks

I have run Verify disk on disk utility, and it says everything is ok. the "enable journaling" option is not available under disk utility either!

there is no Backups.backupdb folder. on my Device

I recommend you check your disk avaliable space, I suggest at least 15GB in your disk

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I have 150GB of free space!

Ever find the solution for this. I have the exact same error and just gave up