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Recovery HD is locked

Trying to reinstall startup disc but macOS High Sierra says Recovery HD is locked- what do I do now?

iMac 27″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Sep 22, 2020 12:56 PM

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Posted on Sep 24, 2020 2:11 PM

You can't & don't want to install to the Recovery Partition,I can't read what the other one says but normally you install to Macintosh HD unless you renamed that one.

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Recovery HD is locked

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