Recovery Disk Locked Macbook

Additional utilities are available from the utilities menu in the menu bar.
Recovery disk locked macbook. Select your harddrive in the sidebar. I also had an issue with a locked disc when i was in recovery mode. Select disk utility from the utilities window of macos recovery then click continue.
Mac os x lion and above include the recovery feature which can be used to reinstall the operating system repair the hard disk or restore the system from a backup. It should be the drive at the top of the sidebar if there are multiple drives. From there i was able to erase the mac s hard drive with journaled selected.
This process could take a little while. To enter the recovery mode press command r key when the system reboots keep holding them down until the apple logo appears. Startup security utility or firmware password utility network utility and terminal.
By definition the recovery hd is a partition of the hard drive on disk of a mac device. A user can access it by rebooting mac and holding down the command r keys in the process. Choose guid partition map.
I ended up installing high serria on a thumb drive rebooting the mac holding down command and selected the thumb drive to boot from. To quit macos recovery choose restart or shut down from the apple menu. Click on your mac s startup drive in the disk utility sidebar.
First aid will run checking the health of your mac s drive. Click disk utility when in macos recovery. There s a simple way to do this using your mac recovery partition or via mac internet recovery.