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?: Cannot unlock Mac OS X Install ESD boot flash drive
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1704948"><p>You cannot install to the drive from which you are booted. From your description of coming up displaying Utilities, it looks like you are booting from the USB installer and then trying ti install to that drive, which you cannot do because it is locked by being the boot drive. </p><p></p><p>SO, is what you REALLY want a thumb drive that can boot into Lion with a graphical desktop and all your files just like on the HD? If that is what you want, you'll need a HUGE drive to hold everything. If you are ok with a "spinner" external HD as a backup to the SSD, then get any external drive of the same or larger size than your SSD and use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! to clone your internal SSD to that external HD, then test by booting from it as a test after the clone is complete.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1704948"] You cannot install to the drive from which you are booted. From your description of coming up displaying Utilities, it looks like you are booting from the USB installer and then trying ti install to that drive, which you cannot do because it is locked by being the boot drive. SO, is what you REALLY want a thumb drive that can boot into Lion with a graphical desktop and all your files just like on the HD? If that is what you want, you'll need a HUGE drive to hold everything. If you are ok with a "spinner" external HD as a backup to the SSD, then get any external drive of the same or larger size than your SSD and use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! to clone your internal SSD to that external HD, then test by booting from it as a test after the clone is complete. [/QUOTE]
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