Time Machine Restore stuck on searching for disks

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Time Machine Restore stuck on searching for disks

Hello,

Last night I was promoted to update to Mac OS High Sierra. My MacBook Pro has not been right since! I have received the message that the disk is locked, not sure what that means. I also tried to restore my MacBook from my Time Machine and cannot get past the ‘searching for disks’ screen for hours now. I have restarted my MacBook numerous times and have tried to repair and erase from disk utility, however my erase button is greater out completely. I’m so frustrated and truly do not know what I can do to fix this issue :( I am not able to sign in to my computer, I am prompted with the High Sierra update which dead ends at the disk is locked screen. And none of my options seem to be working in the recovery mode screen. Please help!!!!!

Thank you!

Jessica

Posted on Nov 24, 2017 10:27 AM

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Answer 1

jwelsh802 Author

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Nov 28, 2017 9:58 PM in response to Mahlon27

High Sierra completely screwed up my laptop. I never was able to restore my MacBook from my Time Machine since I could not get past the 'searching for disks' screen. At one point, my computer would only start up in safe mode. I did speak with an Apple tech support supervisor prior to taking my laptop to a tech, they had me completely erase my hard drive. I'm not sure if you have an external hard drive or some type of back-up, but that was the only thing that saved my pictures, documents, and important downloads! Best of luck to you!

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Mahlon27

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Nov 29, 2017 12:13 PM in response to jwelsh802

I actually got it to boot finally. I had to hold down command and option I believe and it game me a different dialogue, which went back to the utilities panel, and it worked right away. Unfortunately it did not fix my issues, this morning, my laptop started randomly restarting again. I'm currently sitting at the Genius Bar right now. Not amused.

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Mahlon27

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Nov 28, 2017 4:00 PM in response to jwelsh802

I have this exact same issue. Terrible experience with High Sierra, now Time Machine won't go past searching for disks after I wiped my drive clean... The step prior to being stuck, it recognizes my drive and back up point...what is happening?

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