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Macbook Air Mid 2011: How to recreate Lion internal recovery hdRecovery HD partition?

I have a Macbook Air Mid 2011 which came pre-installed with Lion and had a recovery partition (which is needed for Filevault 2). After

After a trackpad hardware problem I wanted to be sure that none of my programs was responsible for the problem. I booted into the recovery partition and used the disk utility program to repartition the disk with a single partition (the recovery partition wasn't listed there so I assumed that it was not affected of the repartitioning much like the hidden EFI partition) and reinstalled Lion onto that partition.

Later I noticed that this has in fact removed the internal recovery partition (although it allows the "web recovery" to start). Now

Now I'm searching for a way to "restore" that internal recovery partition. When upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion it seems as if the updater creates that partition. Is there a manual way to re-enable that partition? Or any other way to allow me to use Filevault 2 (which requires the internal recovery partition)?

Macbook Air Mid 2011: How to recreate Lion internal recovery hd partition?

I have a Macbook Air Mid 2011 which came pre-installed with Lion and had a recovery partition (which is needed for Filevault 2). After a trackpad hardware problem I wanted to be sure that none of my programs was responsible for the problem. I booted into the recovery partition and used the disk utility program to repartition the disk with a single partition (the recovery partition wasn't listed there so I assumed that it was not affected of the repartitioning much like the hidden EFI partition) and reinstalled Lion onto that partition.

Later I noticed that this has in fact removed the internal recovery partition (although it allows the "web recovery" to start). Now I'm searching for a way to "restore" that internal recovery partition. When upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion it seems as if the updater creates that partition. Is there a manual way to re-enable that partition? Or any other way to allow me to use Filevault 2 (which requires the internal recovery partition)?

How to recreate Lion Recovery HD partition?

I have a Macbook Air Mid 2011 which came pre-installed with Lion.

After a trackpad hardware problem I wanted to be sure that none of my programs was responsible for the problem. I booted into the recovery partition and used the disk utility program to repartition the disk with a single partition (the recovery partition wasn't listed there so I assumed that it was not affected of the repartitioning much like the hidden EFI partition) and reinstalled Lion onto that partition.

Later I noticed that this has in fact removed the internal recovery partition (although it allows the "web recovery" to start).

Now I'm searching for a way to "restore" that internal recovery partition. Is there a manual way to re-enable that partition? Or any other way to allow me to use Filevault 2 (which requires the internal recovery partition)?

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Macbook Air Mid 2011: How to recreate Lion internal recovery hd partition?

I have a Macbook Air Mid 2011 which came pre-installed with Lion and had a recovery partition (which is needed for Filevault 2). After a trackpad hardware problem I wanted to be sure that none of my programs was responsible for the problem. I booted into the recovery partition and used the disk utility program to repartition the disk with a single partition (the recovery partition wasn't listed there so I assumed that it was not affected of the repartitioning much like the hidden EFI partition) and reinstalled Lion onto that partition.

Later I noticed that this has in fact removed the internal recovery partition (although it allows the "web recovery" to start). Now I'm searching for a way to "restore" that internal recovery partition. When upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion it seems as if the updater creates that partition. Is there a manual way to re-enable that partition? Or any other way to allow me to use Filevault 2 (which requires the internal recovery partition)?