Mac drive not showing up on resetpassword screen
I am trying to reset my admin password using recovery partition. When I type resetpassword in terminal, a window shows up but I don't see my drive in the top box.
Is there a way to fix this? btw, I tried booting into single user mode, but it goes straight to the login page.
EDIT:
I may know why the drive doesn't show up. I checked Disk Utility and saw that the drive is locked. But I need a password to unlock it, which I don't have!
The drive is locked using FileVault encryption and cannot be accessed until you unlock the drive. This may be set to a master password of yours, and often is set a while back. You may want to try older passwords (or versions of them) to see if any of those work.
To unlock the drive:
- Boot into the recovery mode
- Launch Disk Utility
- Select the drive in disk utility
- Click unlock near the top of the disk utility window
Unfortunately, the drive will not allow you to boot into those options and/or work on it until you pass the encryption lock. It will require a password or for you to completely erase the drive.