Q: OS X Mavericks Unable to Access Macintosh HD
I have a late 2011 13 inch macbook pro (the lowest spec model at that time). I had partitioned the internal hard drive to set it up with bootcamp to dual boot with windows 8.1 64 bit version in mid 2014. I am currently running bootcamp version 5.1. I was stupid and used the free upgrade to Windows 10 without backing up my data. I also didn't read the instructions for upgrading to Windows 10 with bootcamp to see that Windows 10 is not compatible with my model of macbook. Anyways, everything was fine for awhile after the upgrade. I think I upgraded in early June. The only issues that came up were I could no longer control my volume, backlit keyboard, or screen brightness with the hot keys on the keyboard. I brushed it off, just thinking that I needed to update my bootcamp.
About a month ago, I tried to boot my mac side, and everything started out normally: I turned on computer holding down option, selected "Macintosh HD" and the drive booted just fine. However, when the OS X (Mavericks) started up, the "Unapproved Caller Security Agent may only be invoked by Apple software" error window popped up. I turned off computer and tried again. This time, I did make it to my os x desktop, but I noticed right away that my computer was running extremely slow. I cannot open the app store or "about this mac" or utilities or anything. I can simply view my dock and shortcuts on desktop and I can open finder. If I try to open anything, my computer basically freezes (the app becomes unresponsive). I am able to open up the task manager (or whatever it is called on mac) and I see that all my ram (4 gb) is being used up and a good amount of virtual memory is being used (around 8 gb). Therefore, I'm pretty sure my computer would be crashing if it weren't for the virtual memory. Another thing I notice is that according to the os x, my macintosh hd is nonexistent. I do not see it on my dock, and I do not see it in finder. I even opened the terminal window to view my current drive, and there was simply a '\' where macintosh hd should be.
I have tried everything: I rebooted my mac in safe mode and it never made it to os x, it got stuck at the gray progress bar screen. I booted my mac to view disk utility by holding down command and R I believe. The disk utility did recognize macintosh hd and it said the disk was good. But when I tried to restart again, the same "unapproved caller" error window popped up. When this window pops up, os x will not start up and I have to force shut off my computer.
A weird thing is when I boot on my windows side, I noticed that my windows recognizes the Macintosh HD as drive D or something. This was never the case before. Only my mac side could view the boot camp drive, not the windows side being able to view my macintosh hd. I can open it up and view all my documents and files. However, when I try to open any of the files on my macintosh hd, windows crashes...it crashes hard.
I am almost certain this has everything to do with my upgrade to windows 10. I think it also has something to do with me not updating bootcamp and not updating my os x mavericks regularly...but I am not sure.
Is there anything else I can do, or do I just need to take it in to a repair shop and have everything reinstalled?
MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)
Posted on Aug 22, 2016 2:01 PM