How to Unlock Recovery Hd Mac?

How to Restore Mac with the Help of Recovery HD

Recovery HD can get locked sometimes which is indicated by the appearance of an error message that says, "Hard Drive locked". To get rid of this problem, simply go to disk utility, click on the hard drive then click enable journaling to unlock the drive.

How do you Unlock Recovery HD on Mac High Sierra?

Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.

What is Recovery Key to Unlock the Volume Macintosh HD?

A recovery key is a randomly generated 28character code that you can use to help reset your password or regain access to your Apple ID. While its not required, using a recovery key improves the security of your account by putting you in control of resetting your password.

How do you Unlock Macintosh HD on Macbook?

Boot into Recovery
Turn on your Mac and immediately press and hold down two keys : Command ⌘ and R. Release the keys when the Apple logo appears. If prompted, enter your password for a user with admin status.

How do you Fix this Disk is Locked Mac?

Select Disk Utility from the utilities window of macOS Recovery, then click Continue.
Select your harddrive in the sidebar.
Click the Erase button MAKE SURE YOU DO HAVE BACKUP
Format: Choose Mac OS Extended Journaled
Scheme: Choose GUID Partition Map.
Go back to the OS X installation guide.