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nazderbo

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Oct 8, 2016
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i have a 2008 macbook pro i recently upgraded to el capitan and it worked fine ...i wanted to erase it and give it to my son....now i can't recover it back to far settings after getting to recovery it says this item is not available at this time ...then i go to open the hd it gives me the "its locked error " please someone help thank you ...

naz
 
If you don't mind, can we pick up the PM discussion here since it is a little easier for me to follow and reply.

Do you have some other way to boot like maybe an external drive or a USB key?
 
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