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How long does first aid on Macintosh HD take?
Repairing a healthy disk on your Mac only takes about five minutes. But if your disk is damaged or corrupt in any way, carrying out First Aid on it could take a couple of hours instead.
How do you unlock Macintosh HD in Disk Utility?
See this post for details.
- 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.
Would you like to run first aid Macintosh HD?
If you check your startup volume (Macintosh HD), make sure you also check your data volume (Macintosh HD – Data). In the sidebar, select a volume, then click the First Aid button . In the First Aid dialog, click Run, then follow the onscreen instructions. When the First Aid process is complete, click Done.
Why is the disk Macintosh HD can’t be unlocked?
I am getting “the disk Macintosh HD can’t be unlocked” popup error after reinstalling Catalina. I checked Disk Utility, there are 3 partitions named, “Macintosh HD”, “Macintosh HD – Data”, “Macintosh HD – Data Data”.
How do I Run First Aid on a disk?
After Disk Utility is done checking the volume, select the next item above it in the sidebar, then run First Aid again. Keep moving up the list, running First Aid for each volume on the disk, then each container on the disk, then finally the disk itself.
How can I unlock the Macintosh HD to rein?
The issue now is the active disc that contains OS is full with no single byte free and doesn’t mount or load OS to computer run and always a grey bar appears upon starting the PC that takes 20 to 30 min I tried to increase Macintosh HD space from partition but it says you can not change the partition because the disc is locked.
What do I do if my disk is locked?
Easy solution is hold down command + R and get into disk utility, select the main HD and select File > “Enable journaling” but if you are like me, it was greyed out. What the issue is, you are trying to modify the drive you are currently working on which it doesn’t like.