a feature of OS X Lion (10.7) that allows the user boot into a partition that includes tools to repair, reinstall, or restore a Lion install
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Can't download Mountain Lion from app store on a Mac already running Mountain Lion?
I am trying to download and/or acquire an operating system installer for my newly purchased Mac. My objective is to put this onto some form of removable media (USB ideally) such that in the event that ...
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How to restore a missing Recovery HD partition
I bought a second hand Macbook Pro which came with OSX Lion installed, when I wanted to clean it I found out that it had no Recovery HD partition. I confirmed this through the Disk Utility (enabled ...
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Made DIY fusion drive… now recovery partition won't boot
diskutil list shows what I am fairly certain is the correct layout. The recovery partition is "outside" the core storage logical volume group on the rotational disk:
% diskutil list
/dev/disk0
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Ethernet (LAN) connection not working within the Mac Mini Recovery HD
my Ethernet (LAN) connection works fine in the Mac Mini. However it doesn't work once I boot into the Recovery HD. Any ideas on why it would work in normal partition but not in Recovery partition?
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Can I switch in a new storage drive without again downloading the Mountain Lion installer?
I have a time machine backup of my early 2011 macbook pro OSX system with mountain lion, I want to remove it's hard disk and replace it with SSD, I have a spare memory key, is there a way to restore ...
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How can I create a new Recovery Partition on EXTERNAL disk?
I want to enable encryption on an external FireWire disk. The disk has been formatted a while ago (2+ years), and when choosing "encrypt volume" from the Finder context menu, Mountain Lion refuses ...
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Repair or recover drive from recovery mode
My main HDD is failing to boot. (Neither Normal, Safe mode nor Single User).
I can only boot from Recovery Mode or DVD.
The scenario was the following:
Computer was asleep (lid down).
Lifted the ...
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Can't boot to newly created Recovery Partiton
I am using DeployStudio to distribute my Mac images and when I create a new image the recovery partiton seems to be deleted on the new Retinas. I have followed this in the past, ...
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How can I back up my iMac from the Recovery Partition?
Things in my iMac are failing, most notably the hard drive. I can only reliably boot to the Recovery Partition. Booting to the regular system, either normally or in Safe Mode, does not work, and ...
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How to recover accidentally deleted data?
My data has been deleted accidentally don't know how it got deleted.
Yesterday when I left office the folders where at proper place and when today morning I opened my Mac OS Lion 10.7.4. I found ...
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Why is the Mountain Lion Installer unable to complete due to recovery partition problems?
I just bought the Mountain Lion upgrade, but it's unable to complete. When I select my harddrive it says:
Some features of OS X Mountain Lion are not supported for the disk
“kollaps”.
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Why is the Recovery HD mounted when running Software Update?
I have installed HardwareGrowler, which displays a notification every time something is being mounted/ejected, connected/disconnected, etc.
It tells me that at the start of when Software Update the ...
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Why can I boot into the recovery partition without entering a password even though I have FileVault 2 with full-disk-encryption enabled?
Apple has released this support document for FileVault 2 in Lion which says:
FileVault 2 uses full disk, XTS-AES 128 encryption to help keep your data secure. With FileVault 2 you can encrypt the ...
