Recovery is a new feature of Mac OS X Lion. Both the hidden Recovery HD on macs with Lion as well as external drives that function as a Recovery HD are related to the concept of recovery. Both data-recovery or file-recovery is unrelated to the recovery category here.
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Macbook Pro Early 2011 15 inch, Mountain Lion Booting issue
My Macbook Pro is not booting normally. I tried many options but no success. If I try to recovery mode or try to boot from USB, a blue screen appears. So I can't do fresh install. I checked hardware ...
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Accidentally Deleted my iPhoto Library
I accidentally deleted my iPhoto Library last night and cleared my trash as I saw I had 2 iPhoto Applications. Today when, I opened up my iPhoto, the only photos remaining were the ones from 2011.
I ...
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Mac shutdown. Need apple iTunes account with purchased lion OSX [closed]
I was reformatting My MacBook Pro, erased the hard drive, and reinstalled OS X Lion; the Apple iTunes Store is telling me that I have not purchased it, when I have purchased it.
Apparently my ...
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How to install Lion without disc
So I'm new at Mac... I bought a Macbook Pro Late 2011 and the previous owner didn't do a fresh install.
So I booted from the recovery partition, Disk Utility, erased the Macintosh HD and went to ...
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Why can't my MacBook Air run Software Update?
One of the first things that I tried to do when I got my new MacBook Air out of the box was upgrade iTunes to 10.5 (through Software Update). It downloaded the files (four different updates in total), ...
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Reformatting MacBookPro6,2
I have a macbook pro 6,2 and don't have the recovery discs as I am traveling abroad and left my discs at home. Is there any way to reformat my hard drive and get it to factory (or near factory) ...
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Updated my jailbroken iPhone 4s to 6.1.3, stuck in Recov. loop
My iPhone 4s was jailbroken, I think at 5.something or 6.0. I wish I remembered. I tried to update it to 6.1.3 via my phone in the settings menu. It restarted and told me to connect to iTunes.
I ...
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iPhone 4 water damage - how to recover data?
My sister dropped her iPhone into water and made the fatal mistake of turning it on just a few hours later, thinking it was already dry. I put it into a bag with rice for days. She had taken a lot ...
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dual boot Mountain Lion/Mountain Lion
I got a Macbook Pro with OS 10.8 installed on, the usual recovery partition that is created by the OS installer, and a 35GB partition (currently NTFS, but I can reformat in HFS+ if needed).
My ...
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Unable to unmount drive!
Somehow my harddrive seems to fail, I am not able to startup anymore. When I started in verbose mode, I noticed that the harddrive return I/O Errors and the B-Node-Tree seems to be corrupted.
I was ...
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How can I create or recreate a Lion recovery partition?
For whatever reason, one of our macs didn't make a recovery partition when it upgraded to Lion.
Is it possible to add a recovery partition after the fact?
To be clear - on a normal mac, the ...
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Is it safe to reformat drive during Recovery Mode install?
I've inherited an almost brand new 13" Macbook Pro Retina. I'd like wipe the hard drive clean and start with a fresh install of Mountain Lion. I've done this a million times before... but never while ...
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Why were my permissions different from the default and what are the implications of “fixing” them?
For some time now my Finder "Get Info" dialogs have been displaying "Fetching...", and I recently decided to fix the problem by following the instructions for resetting my home folder permissions. As ...
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If mac has the built-in backup tool time machine, why we still need mac data recovery?
I dont know much about computer thing and just knew that mac has a built-in backup called time-machine? what is that? can it help us recover the lost data in my mac. and why people still need some ...
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What should I do after I lost my MacBook data?
I lost my data on my Mac and now I don't know how to recover it. Do I have to go to a recover shop and pay for the costly recovery?
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Can I Mount a Hard Drive in Mac Pro Tower as Read Only?
I'm trying to recover data from a failed external Fantom RAID Drive enclosure by plugging the drives into a Mac Pro tower, but I'm concerned that OS X might write to the disks and jeopardize the RAID ...
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How can I configure my Ethernet connection when booting from Recovery HD?
I'm trying to recover from a Time Machine drive sitting on the network at work. Our network doesn't use DHCP–it requires the Ethernet connection to be manually configured. I've looked at the Network ...
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Can I restore from a Time Machine backup without booting to the Recovery HD?
At work we have a Time Machine drive on the network. I'm trying to restore one of our machine's backup to an external drive. When I boot into the Recovery HD, I can't reach the network drive. Is there ...
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What utilities should I put on an emergency recovery drive or SD card?
I've recently made an emergency recovery SD card for my MacBook Pro. Right now, all it has is a clone of the internal drive's recovery partition, and an encrypted sparsebundle with my 1Password file. ...
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Reinstall on Macbook Air 2010 (Macbook 3,1)
I'm trying to reinstall the OS on a MacBook Air. I got it from my former company, and they didn't keep the OS install disc, in fact they wiped it and put Windows 7 on it. I have quite a few macs, and ...
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Not seeing my HD in the disk utility
I tried to start up my computer and got a flashing file with a question mark. so I reset it and held down the alt / option key and brought it into internet recovery. After going through the different ...
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Is there an alternative to downloading Lion from the net?
I have a 13 inch Macbook Air 2011. A couple of days back, I was deleting some files and I landed in the Macintosh HD folder (root) and from there I ⌘+Deleted everything. Needless to say, my Mac ...
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I brought My Macbook Pro last year in november (Latest Model available then) and suddenly today started to show a question mark?
I brought My Mac-book Pro last year in November(Latest Model available then) and suddenly today started to show a question mark?
I tried to pull up the option menu by holding Option key while ...
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What are some good data recovery programs to try on an SD card?
My friend imported a bunch of videos from his GoPro into iPhoto and foolishly let iPhoto delete upon successful import. He claims that iPhoto then quit unexpectedly and all of the videos are gone.
My ...
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Backup files from recovery utility
My Mac seems to have given up. I have my important data backed up, but I have a few gigs of movies and music that I wasn't backing up. I can boot into the recovery utility and launch a terminal, ...
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DIY Fusion Drive: Adding Recovery HD to a CoreStorage Volume Group
After creating a "DIY Fusion Drive" using the methods below in 10.8, I'm now wondering how to add a RecoveryHD partition to the internal drive.
Here's what I did to create a Logical Volume Group ...
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What's a reliable method to create a stand alone recovery disk for Lion?
I'm seeing a lot of questions with all sorts of steps to burn a DVD or create a USB disk so you can boot your Mac with Lion if the internal drive is replaced.
Is there a definitive set of steps that ...
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Clean install of Mountain Lion on MBP early 2011 failed
I want to install a fresh version of mountain lion via usb stick on my macbookpro (early 2011) + new Samsung 840 SSD. (NVRAM cleared, HDD Empty)
1.) I created a usb installer as described here: ...
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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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How do I refresh a “Lion” iMac to run “Mountain Lion” (factory install, wipe drive)
What is the easiest way to upgrade a 2011 iMac to Mountain Lion, including a full drive reformat?
I also have a new MacBook which was purchased with Mountain Lion. Do I still need to buy Mountain ...
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How to undelete notes on iPhone “Notes” app?
iPhone has a default "Notes" app which allows us to store notes. Stored notes can be deleted by hitting the "Delete Note" button:
How do we recover a note that is accidentally deleted?
Is there ...
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How can I recover an unresponding application without quitting?
I've just run a very long Matlab simulation on my Mac Book Air. It uses Mac OSX. The simulation has practically finished, but seconds before the end, Matlab appeared in the activity monitor as not ...
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Remove recovery feature from recovery disk
I mistakenly made a recovery disk from my USB external Hard drive. By making recovery dosk I can no longer use its entire 500 GB space. Now I want to restore this disk to original state so that I ...
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Add recovery partition back onto drive after drive change [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to recreate Lion Recovery HD partition?
I hope this question is different enough from the others that is doesn't get closed.
I am first time Mac user, long time ...
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OS X Lion Recovery hangs on “Downloading additional components”
Booted into the recovery partition and attempted to reinstall. First pass, nothing happened. Second pass, same. Backed up and erased the install partition, tried a third time. Seemed to be fine until ...
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How to create an up to date ML recovery?
There were several updates affecting the recovery partition. Is there a way to create an usb memory stick containing an up to date Mountain Lion recovery partition?
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How can I install an SSD on my new Lion MBP w/out install disks?
I just got a new MBP that came with Lion, and they didn't give me any install disks. If I swap in my new SSD, how can I install Lion on the new drive?
Update: There is the Mac OS X Utilities that I ...
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Iphone 5 restore failed. Iphone in recovery mode only
I've tried to restore my iphone 5 with itunes (installed newest version 64 bit on windows 7) and it gave me error. I clicked the website and didn't write down error code. On the website there was ...
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Can't turn on FileVault after restore from Time Machine
I have bought myself a SSD and replaced the internal disk with it.
I was running Lion before (latest patch level).
I'm using Time Machine to back my laptop up.
When I was done replacing my HDD I ...
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Diskutil can't find Core Storage Volumes
My OSX Mountain Lion will no longer atart up. After the logon screen it spins forever (the Apple logon is replaced by an error sign).
When I run in single user mode I get a "still waiting for root ...
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How to clean up partitions after OS X is moved from HD to SSD
Yesterday an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician installed an SSD into my iMac medio 2011. The iMac was born with an 1TB HDD but now a Crucial M4 SSD is also installed inside the mac. I've moved my ...
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How to create a recovery disk after using the up-to-date program?
I used the Up-to-Date program to update OSX to Mountain Lion.
Now I'd like to create a recovery disk, but I can't use the same code to redeem installation package, and from the Apple Store it seems ...
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MacBook Pro Mid 2009 has a recovery partition?
Does my computer (Snow Leopard, MacBook Pro mid 2009), have a recovery hidden partition? How can I access that?
I have the DVDs that came with my laptop, but when I start my laptop, and press and ...
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Is it safe to enable the hidden disk image formats and debug menu in Disk Utility, and what are its purposes?
I'm primarily interested to know whether installation of Lion included the Recovery System.
I understand you can enable extra formats and debugging in Disk Utility, using the following commands:
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Recovering iWork from backup
I recently changed my MBP 13" 2009 to the newer MBP 13" 2012.
I decided not to recover from Time Machine and install everything manually as to make a clean start.
Although I do not have my iWork ...
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Lion Recovery Terminal will not allow me to run TestDisk?
Setup: Macbook Air (2011) running Lion with BootCamp (Windows 7).
Problem: I have somehow screwed up my partition table. When I boot I only can select Windows instead of Windows and Lion. However ...
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Unresponsive iMac and unable to boot into recovery mode
I have a 2012 iMac with Mountain Lion, which ever since I bought it has been prone to being sluggish, and would often freeze and virtually grind to a halt, requiring a reboot.
I have just verified ...
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Refurbishing MacBooks [closed]
I am looking to start refurbishing MacBooks with the intention of reselling them. If they come with the original disks, then I can’t see any problems arising, as I should be able to restore them to as ...
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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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Does the recovery partition get updates?
I clean-installed Mountain Lion 10.8.0. Now I am at 10.8.2 and I want to do a clean install again. If I boot to the recovery partition and do a restore, will I have 10.8.0 or 10.8.2? Does the recovery ...
