Timeline for How to recreate Lion Recovery HD partition?
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| Sep 25, 2012 at 0:04 | comment | added | lhf | That Apple document says "In order to create an external OS X Recovery using the OS X Recovery Assistant, the Mac must have an existing Recovery HD." | |
| Oct 9, 2011 at 17:06 | comment | added | user10355 | @kvDennis if the answer was that you misread Disk Utility and that the partition was there all along, you shouldn't mark this as te solution. It'll send others on a wild goose chase. Reply to this question yourself and then in 2 days (the required waiting period) mark it as the solution. That's the best way to help others that may suffer from the same problem in the future. Or get stuffe to modify this post to reflect the "correct" answer. | |
| Aug 17, 2011 at 15:13 | vote | accept | kvDennis | ||
| Aug 17, 2011 at 15:12 | comment | added | kvDennis | In the meanwhile I reinstalled Lion a second time from the web recovery tool and now that it is finished I'm able to start from the internal recovery partition again. It's difficult to find out how it was before, but the fresh install from the web recovery partition worked and noe everything's ok | |
| Aug 17, 2011 at 15:11 | comment | added | kvDennis | I assumed the recovery partition to be gone because I enabled the debug menu for the disk utility program (defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled -bool YES) and there the EFI partition showed up but nothing else. | |
| Aug 17, 2011 at 14:48 | comment | added | stuffe | I just noticed, I did actually answer rather than comment, then contradicted myself - oops, mistake - I'll leave it there as hopefully the resulting comments are useful. Sorry about that. | |
| Aug 17, 2011 at 14:41 | comment | added | David | I agree he may not have lost it. I have a hard time imagining that using Disk Utility from a restore partition would let you do anything to damage the restore partition, at least not easily. | |
| Aug 17, 2011 at 14:39 | comment | added | stuffe | I saw that, what's why I commented rather than answered, but I am not convinced that he has actually lost it yet. Mind you, even if he has, I think it's the nearest alternative, as he will be able to potentially create the partition externally, the copy ot back. Let's see if it's really gone. | |
| Aug 17, 2011 at 14:36 | comment | added | David | Your answer is unlikely to help kvDennis, since the support document you referenced is a discussion of how to create a USB restore disk. This process requires an existing restore partition. If he has lost his partition, he will not be able to create a restore disk either. | |
| Aug 17, 2011 at 14:27 | history | answered | stuffe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |