El Capitan

OK I know I messed up. Loaded parellels and messed up so decided to go back to factory defaults. Followed instructions on Apple. When I boot in to Mac, the hard drive is not showing. The drive containing the presumably back up is showing and saysit is locked - Apple is closed today. Any suggestions. I just can't find the darn drive.

Cheers and Happy Thanksgiving.

Is your Mac booted from the drive while you can't find it? If so, go to Finder>Preferences. Then in the General tab make sure the hard drive option is checked.

Slydude said:

Is your Mac booted from the drive while you can't find it? If so, go to Finder>Preferences. Then in the General tab make sure the hard drive option is checked.

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I can't get in the computer at all. When I see the disk utility etc there is no hard drive showing except the one that contains the backup. I believe the partitiion has done a bunk.

How are you getting into Disk Utility? You booting from the recovery partition or a flash drive?

Command D or Command R
I have tried every single command that Apple has to offer. It takes me to the disk utility but the hardrive does not show up.