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Fergie80

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Sep 11, 2010
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Hi all.

My old HDD died on me. Purchased a new Samsung 250GB HDD. I re-downloaded Lion from the App Store, made it bootable on an external USB drive.

I plugged in and started the Lion setup. However, when it got to the point at which I had to select the HDD on which to install Lion, it said "This disk is locked" of the Samsung internal drive.

If somebody could point me how to get around this, I'd much appreciate it!
 

drsox

macrumors 68000
Apr 29, 2011
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Xhystos
Hi all.

My old HDD died on me. Purchased a new Samsung 250GB HDD. I re-downloaded Lion from the App Store, made it bootable on an external USB drive.

I plugged in and started the Lion setup. However, when it got to the point at which I had to select the HDD on which to install Lion, it said "This disk is locked" of the Samsung internal drive.

If somebody could point me how to get around this, I'd much appreciate it!

Did you do any formatting of the new drive with Disk Utility ?
 
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