Trying to re install mountain lion but recovery hd is locked and deleted macintosh hd :(
Hi all :)
I wanted to re install lion OS X but got it all wrong and in a muddle !
I restarted OS X got to utilities, the disk utility and went to delete 500.11 gb but would not allow and could not unmount! Thought I would go to re install OS X but says that recovery hd is locked! Now me thinking of a work around went back to disk utility and deleted the next branch down which was macintosh hd. But recovery hd is still locked when tryin to re install OS X and now I can't even get back past utilities now when booting up :(
I have no back up either and my mac is useless to me :(
I even tried system restore but gives me nothing
Any help would be appreciated :)
Thanks
Since you deleted the OS X files, and your Recovery HD is locked, AND you do NOT have a backup on an external hard drive, your options are very limited. You did not say which model year and version of Mac you have, nor did you say which version of OS X came new on your Mac. IF your Mac came with an older version of OS X on it, then your Mac also came with a set of Installation Disks. If so, insert the Installation Disk 1 and boot up while holding down the "C" key to boot from that disk. You will then be able to reformat your hard drive and install that older version of OS X that came with your Mac. Then "Update" that version completely online, and then you can eventually "Upgrade" the version of OS X back to Lion.
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