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Internal Hard Drive Locked

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JonnyP123

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Jun 25, 2009
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So I had some issues with my system and finally decided it was best to get a new hard drive and reinstall osx. When I did this though, my second internal hard drive became locked. I have gone into the Get Info for the drive and it has the Privilege set to Custom. I unlock the lock in the lower right corner and try to change custom to Read & Write, but it does not make the change. I am at a loss on where to go from here.

I am on a MacPro running 10.5.7

Also, which I havent noticed before, the icon of the drive has a small silver lock in the lower left corner. This is the icon on the desktop itself. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks
 
JonnyP123 said:
So I had some issues with my system and finally decided it was best to get a new hard drive and reinstall osx. When I did this though, my second internal hard drive became locked. I have gone into the Get Info for the drive and it has the Privilege set to Custom. I unlock the lock in the lower right corner and try to change custom to Read & Write, but it does not make the change. I am at a loss on where to go from here.

I am on a MacPro running 10.5.7

Also, which I havent noticed before, the icon of the drive has a small silver lock in the lower left corner. This is the icon on the desktop itself. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks
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How did it "became locked"?
That might shed some light on the situation

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That is the odd thing. I do not know. So here is a bit more info. I have two drives on my system, one with the system and the other for projects. The system drive started acting up, so I finally put a new drive in and restored it with my back up disk. This, of course, brought the corrupted file back over so I knew I had to zero out the disk and reinstall everything. I believe when I restored the system drive, this is when the project drive became locked.

I know for sure that once I erased the system drive to reinstall osx from scratch it was locked. There was no action taken or involvement with the project drive, it just showed up locked upon a restart.
 
When I had this problem before I used a little free app called Lock Me Baby. I couldn't find a link for it but since it's free I thought I would just post it here for you to try.
 

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Cynicalone said:
When I had this problem before I used a little free app called Lock Me Baby. I couldn't find a link for it but since it's free I thought I would just post it here for you to try.
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Thanks, I will look into it. Anyone else use this program. Always a bit wary of smaller programs.
 
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