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First, open a Terminal.
Status before:
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *128.0 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 127.8 GB ...
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The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant can make a backup copy of the recovery partition.
The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant lets you create Lion Recovery on an external drive that has the same capabilities and limitations as the built-in Lion Recovery. Just as a backup copy of a good file needs to be made before the file comes upon it's demise, this tool will not ...
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This might help
http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1433
"The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant lets you create Lion Recovery on an external drive that has all of the same capabilities as the built-in Lion Recovery: reinstall Lion, repair the disk using Disk Utility, restore from a Time Machine backup, or browse the web with Safari."
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The best answer is one supported by Apple.
Why not use the new Lion Recovery Disk Assistant to make your USB bootable media.
The only requirements are listed as:
A Mac running OS X Lion with an existing Recovery HD
An external USB hard drive or thumb drive with at least 1GB of free space
Detailed, step by step instructions are updated at ...
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I just did this yesterday, so it's still fresh in my mind. Make sure that when you restart your computer, you hold Cmd-R to enter recovery mode. Inside that, choose "Disk Utility" and there you can erase your Mac OSX partition.
If you do not do that and simply select "Reinstall Mac OS X", then it will not erase your drive, but just overwrite the parts ...
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Office 2011 requires activation and is tied to your hardware so it might very well be that you need to reactivate Office 2011 after the HD change. The whole activation procedure is described in Office for Mac 2011 Activation and Product key Information. According to this document, the product key was mailed to you in a mail with subject "Microsoft Office for ...
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Homebrew developer here: everything should be under /usr/local. Anything not under there would have required manual intervention by you to be put somewhere else (most likely your home directory). Worst case you just read the caveats for the packages that don't appear to work correctly any more.
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You'll need to partition the drives first, putting the Recovery partition on one of your physical drives. It can't be part of the Fusion drive as its unlikely you can boot directly into a Core Storage logical volume (you need a boot loader separately).
Take note of the partition structure in this Ars Technical article about the Fusion drive.
The best way ...
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Ok so I have solved the problem without re-formatting or re-installing. Hopefully most people won't wind up in this situation. See @robmathers answer for tips on how to avoid deleting your Recovery HD in the first place.
WARNING the following commands are fairly low-level and may cause you to loose data. Take proper precautions (backup, clone, etc).
But ...
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The recovery partition on your original disk was the only supported method until the Recovery Disk Assistant was made available.
The bulk of this answer was written before the official steps were published - so I would recommend the Recovery Disk Assistant even though HT4718 steps help understand what is happening under the hood.
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You also need to recover library files:
/Library/Application Support/iWork'09
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iWork09.installer.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iWork09.plist
In my case, this was the minimum requirement to get Keynote starting again.
Additionally, you might want to recover user-specific files from your user directory:
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Yes - programs like PhoneView can often read files from a device that iTunes insists must be restored. The iTunes function is to sync and clearly the OS is now in a state where it can't run itself or be updated, so the "correct" thing for iTunes is to ask for a restore.
I wouldn't say that you are guaranteed to get the photos back, but it's good you have ...
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The Recovery Partition does not get updated. Once the partition is created, OS X Recovery downloads the latest of your OS X version from Apple.
Extracted from Apple's About OS X Recovery:
Reinstalling OS X Lion or OS X Mountain Lion via OS X Recovery requires broadband access to the Internet via Wi-Fi or an Ethernet connection. OS X is downloaded over ...
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Yes, you can. Be sure to have a full Time Machine archive on an external device before you begin, and check your MBP meets the minimum system requirements before you buy. The Mountain Lion installer will create Recovery HD, if it doesn't already exist.
In case you choose to do a clean install, which is quicker, import your account afterwards from the Time ...
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The best guide is all written up on Apple's support web site.
A high level Introducing Lion Recovery covers the basics and the About Lion Recovery knowledge base article gets into the details.
Some macs can use internet recovery to perform a one step / internet net boot / bare metal restore. All the rest require a [USB bootable recovery HD. Apple provides ...
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My suggestion
Don't try to resize from the Recovery partition. Boot into the normal partition and resize from there.
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diskutil list is misleading you. It is not the position of the recovery partition which is your problem.
I had a very similar setup, and here is the output of diskutil list for me:
#: TYPE NAME ...
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If you have one of the newest Macs (The most recently released Mac Mini or MacBook Air, and in the future all new Mac models) you can install Lion over the Internet by net booting from Apple's servers.
See Apple's Lion Recovery page.
If your Mac problem is a little less common — your hard drive has failed or you’ve installed a hard drive without OS X, ...
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Sounds like your harddisk is busted. There is a feature in MacBooks which is there to help protect the disk by parking the head in the event of a fall but it's not foolproof. Even if you managed to resolve the errors, I wouldn't trust that the disk had not been damaged and you just risk further data loss in future. Best thing you can do is backup anything ...
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You are correct that the recovery partition is not on your machine.
On my Lion machine I see:
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: ...
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Assuming that the InstallESD.dmg is on the windows 7 computer:
Copy the InstallESD.dmg file onto the USB drive (just copy, not burning etc)
Boot into the MacBook's Recovery Partition.
Plug in the USB drive and open disk utility.
Restore the USB drive using the InstallESD.dmg on the USB drive *
Restart and boot from the USB Drive.
*You might not be able ...
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Time Machine is a bit different from third party data recovery software. Here's how they work:
When your computer is connected to an external hard drive and Time Machine is turned on, every hour it backs up the files on your computer (or any files changed since the previous backup). In this way, you always have a copy of everything, including versions going ...
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Luckily I've done this as a proof of concept. The key is to use the terminal for it. Apple hides the recovery partition by default in Disk Utility which makes it hard to clone. Fire up your terminal and let's get started.
Type diskutil list and find the partition name for Recovery_HD, it should be something like disk0s3
What we're going to do with this is ...
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I've got a similar model to yours (black one, same age).
Lion runs fine on it, and all the features work except for multitouch.
You get two finger scroll, but that's about it. It's basically like having a mouse attached.
That said, I don't think there are any functions that require multitouch; they all have keyboard/mouse equivalents.
The performance is ...
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I think your MacBook should support all of Lions features except the gestures as you mentioned. I checked using MacTracker and your MacBook doesn't support the multitouch so you will not be able to use some of the more complex three and four finger gestures.
The only other feature I questioned was Airdrop but a quick search found that Airdrop is supported.
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Carbon Copy Cloner and no, there is no point in a DVD. Save the installer if you must. Redownload it from the store if you didn't save it, but most users never use the DVD and with recovery partition there no need for having a DVD lying around.
Beside, are you aware how long mother nature need to decompose a DVD. Add some ecological thinking.
With no ...
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It didn't take long - there is now an official assistant to roll your own external recovery HD. You need a USB drive with 1Gb of space and a free download.
The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant and OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery Disk Assistant will walk you through making an external bootable Recovery HD.
As the cloning software I like won't handle the Recovery ...
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No destruction will happen - This repartitioning you propose is possible to safely do.
The recovery partition won't modify itself (since it's in use) and will survive attempts to erase itself when it's in charge.
You also can resize things in general when booted from the main OS as long as files that are stored in the area being trimmed are mobile and not ...
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If you have an iTunes backup, you can browse it with this application and maybe find your note again.
The linked app works only for Mac, but here's two alternatives (not tested) :
iPhone backup extractor which is a paid multiplatform app
iphonebackupbrowser which is less polished and windows only, but free.
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From http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4790
FileVault 2 requirements
FileVault 2 requires OS X Lion and Recovery HD installed on your startup drive, which the OS X Lion installer will attempt to create at installation. If you receive an alert that no Recovery HD could be created and continued to install OS X Lion, you will be unable to use FileVault 2. See ...
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