trying to reinstall os x lion but my hardrive is locked
i am forced to reinstall os x lion as my harddrive or mac has an issue.
my mac is not booting correctly so i do it in the save-mode (i speak german so i dont know the right term for it in english (however pressing alt+cmd+r+ turn on button). i can see that my HD is locked and i cant select it when i want to reinstall mac os xlion. in 'disk utility' i varified and repaired the disk and the message in SMART says verified, unfortunately i cant hit 'enable journaling' as its unclickable. please help me i need my files and i know they are there, ps. sorry i dont speak the mac-tech language, even if i used all this terms above, so please write as easy as possible :D
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short update about the verifying, i didnt do it on the macintosh hardware, but on the hardware that has been installed once it was broken, trying to do the varification and repair now, hope that makes sense
by tiziana
didnt work, unfortunately i cant do a back up as my mac wont start properly!
by tiziana