Mavericks installation problem...

[lizardofwoz]

My apologies if this is in the wrong spot…

Mavericks downloaded without problems but I ran into trouble as soon as I selected my startup disk for installation. Early 2013 iMac 27/i7/16 gigs/Fusion. The original 1Tb hard drive.

Mavericks declared that my drive was a Time Machine disk and could not accept installation.

Of course it was NOT a Time Machine disk and never had been. I run an external drive for Time Machine.

Anyone else experienced this problem? I would be grateful for a solution.

 

[Weaselboy]

Go to the Time Machine pref pane in System Prefs and turn off Time Machine then try again.

 

[lizardofwoz]

Go to the Time Machine pref pane in System Prefs and turn off Time Machine then try again.

Thank you. I'll give it a try...

 

[lizardofwoz]

I tried turning off Time Machine, but the strategy didn't work.

However...

I located a folder on my hard drive labelled Backups.backupdb that dated back to the ninth of May 2013. I deleted it and Mavericks installed without further problems. I have no idea what that folder was, and what it was doing. It contained another folder that was empty.

Anyway... thank you for considering my plight, all is well