How do I unlock my hard drive Mac OS X?
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- Boot your Mac and hold down ⌘-R (Command –R) to boot from the Mac’s Recovery HD partition.
- Open Disk Utility.
- Select your locked hard drive.
- Under the File menu, select Unlock “Drive Name” or Turn Off Encryption… , based on what you want to do.
Can you get locked out of Mac computer?
On your Mac, choose Apple menu > Restart, or press the Power button on your computer and then click Restart. Click your user account, click the question mark in the password field, then click the arrow next to “reset it using your Apple ID.” Follow the instructions to reset your login password.
How do I unlock my Apple hard drive?
The easiest way to unlock an external hard drive on Mac computers is to right-click (or hold Option and click) the drive icon, then select Get Info. Here, scroll down to Sharing and Permissions at the bottom, click the lock icon, then enter your password when prompted.
What do I do if I have disk locked on my Mac?
You have to create a new volume prior re-installing OS X. Otherwise you can’t select your drive. Select Disk Utility from the utilities window of macOS Recovery, then click Continue. Scheme: Choose GUID Partition Map.
What to do if your hard drive is locked?
Use Disk Utility to erase and reformat the drive by booting into the Recovery Drive. What do you mean by locked? Is this what you are seeing? You should be able from Recovery Drive to erase a drive.
How do I unlock my hard drive in recovery?
You have file vault enabled. You must first use disk utility to enter the password and then install. You need to enter the disk utility when your in recovery. Select the hard drive from the left panel it will be greyed out or shadowed – from the file menu at the top choose unlock drive.
How to erase a disk on a Mac?
Select Disk Utility and click on the Continue button. When Disk Utility loads select the drive (usually, the out-dented entry) from the side list. Click on the Erase tab in Disk Utility’s main window. A panel will drop down. Set the partition scheme to GUID. Set the Format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.)