Hallo all. I changed the permission on my hard drive to (no access) for everyone then I got a cross logo on my hdd logo and I can't open anything, but I didn't change in (owner) settings. now when trying to start the computer it wont log in. And I did the repair permissions in recovery HD and no good result PLZ HELP
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Macbook hard drive locked and won't start up
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Just start again from Recovery HD and reinstall the OS from there. That will not wipe your data and the new install should sort out the permissions issue.