The New Yosemite and Lion and Montain Lion and Mavericks have done nothing except mess with older computer users and the programs that no longer work. At least they the old ones had caring about users in mind they tried to solve problems instead of creating them. Select the local drive and click the Erase tab, Format should. when I click on the hard drive and it states Hard drive Locked, I am unable to do anything. Start your Mac and hold down the Command + R key combination. I restarted and I clicked on reinstall Lion OS.
I went to disk utility and erased Mac OS extended journaled. I bought a used MacBook and I wanted to do a factory recovery. Sometimes I wish they would fire all of the nerds that are now in place and hire back the old ones. locked hard drive cant reinstall Lion OSX. Click Continue, then follow the onscreen instructions. How do I select a disk to install OSX Install macOS Choose Reinstall macOS (or Reinstall OS X) from the utilities window. Select the drive you want to use for backup, and you’re all set. Just another friggin Apple problem, that probably has no solution. Open System Preferences, click Time Machine, then select Back Up Automatically. I have also used the terminal program to try and access and unlock the drives I do not have the code at hand at this moment This typically means booting from a Windows setup disk and letting the setup program do its thing. The previous date was 2/10 2015 before the message above While reformatting refers to a specific operation, in this situation, it refers to any technique used to erase or overwrite everything on the hard disk. Wait as the OS X utility window appears on the screen. Reboot the Mac and press Command + R keys during startup until you hear a chime.
This is the message that I get after running data Private Data 2/5/40 When you erase a hard drive, you basically format NTFS on Mac and change the format to a compatible one like AFPS or Mac OS X Extended (Journaled). My Data Rescue Program says that the data was changed 2/5/40 "I say what the" I am fully aware of all of the ways to change permissions on the drives They all have a custom permission and when I try to change it to specify a user or admin as read and write they all go back to custom, and Yes I unlocked the get info before I tried. The two drives that have the lock on, are internal macpro drives this happened four days ago. Same problem except that I am a 25 year Macintosh consultant and this has me stumped, I can use Data Rescue to see and recover all the files I need.