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irock101

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Jul 26, 2011
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Hey,

I had my macbook repaired (battery replaced). Now I got it back and I want to re-install OSX from scratch but I have encrypted the HD with filevault in the past. Now I tried all possible passwords and it's just not accepting any password.
Any work around? I don't mind losing any data but even when I go to disk utilities I need to unlock the HD to erase / format it.
[doublepost=1497619524][/doublepost]I just went to utilities -> terminal -> resetpassword - but of course I don't have my filevault encryptio key.
 
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