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How to recreate Lion Recovery HD partition?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 Linux user, so pardon my ignorance in the Apple terminology.

I have a late 2011 MBP that I replaced the drive with an SSD. I didn't care about the contents so I just stuck in the drive and Apple magically gave me OSX Lion again. The SSD was too small, so I bought a bigger one and cloned the drive with SuperDuper. It took a long time to boot afterwards, but it did so I thought everything was great. Then I eventually noticed my recovery partition was not cloned with the rest of my data.

I still have the old drive with the recovery partition and I have enough space to add the partition back to the current/new drive.

My question is: What is the easiest way to get my recovery partition back after losing it completely, without reinstalling from the internet (unless reinstalling won't mess with my data)? I have a USB enclosure for the drive that has the partition. I don't know if it matters, but I originally had Lion and upgraded to Mountain Lion.

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 Linux user, so pardon my ignorance in the Apple terminology.

I have a late 2011 MBP that I replaced the drive with an SSD. I didn't care about the contents so I just stuck in the drive and Apple magically gave me OSX Lion again. The SSD was too small, so I bought a bigger one and cloned the drive with SuperDuper. It took a long time to boot afterwards, but it did so I thought everything was great. Then I eventually noticed my recovery partition was not cloned with the rest of my data.

I still have the old drive with the recovery partition and I have enough space to add the partition back to the current/new drive.

My question is: What is the easiest way to get my recovery partition back after losing it completely, without reinstalling from the internet (unless reinstalling won't mess with my data)? I have a USB enclosure for the drive that has the partition. I don't know if it matters, but I originally had Lion and upgraded to Mountain Lion.

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 Linux user, so pardon my ignorance in the Apple terminology.

I have a late 2011 MBP that I replaced the drive with an SSD. I didn't care about the contents so I just stuck in the drive and Apple magically gave me OSX Lion again. The SSD was too small, so I bought a bigger one and cloned the drive with SuperDuper. It took a long time to boot afterwards, but it did so I thought everything was great. Then I eventually noticed my recovery partition was not cloned with the rest of my data.

I still have the old drive with the recovery partition and I have enough space to add the partition back to the current/new drive.

My question is: What is the easiest way to get my recovery partition back after losing it completely, without reinstalling from the internet (unless reinstalling won't mess with my data)? I have a USB enclosure for the drive that has the partition. I don't know if it matters, but I originally had Lion and upgraded to Mountain Lion.

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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 Linux user, so pardon my ignorance in the Apple terminology.

I have a late 2011 MBP that I replaced the drive with an SSD. I didn't care about the contents so I just stuck in the drive and Apple magically gave me OSX Lion again. The SSD was too small, so I bought a bigger one and cloned the drive with SuperDuper. It took a long time to boot afterwards, but it did so I thought everything was great. Then I eventually noticed my recovery partition was not cloned with the rest of my data.

I still have the old drive with the recovery partition and I have enough space to add the partition back to the current/new drive.

My question is: What is the easiest way to get my recovery partition back after losing it completely, without reinstalling from the internet (unless reinstalling won't mess with my data)? I have a USB enclosure for the drive that has the partition. I don't know if it matters, but I originally had Lion and upgraded to Mountain Lion.

I hope this question is different enough from the others that is doesn't get closed.

I am first time Mac user, long time Linux user, so pardon my ignorance in the Apple terminology.

I have a late 2011 MBP that I replaced the drive with an SSD. I didn't care about the contents so I just stuck in the drive and Apple magically gave me OSX Lion again. The SSD was too small, so I bought a bigger one and cloned the drive with SuperDuper. It took a long time to boot afterwards, but it did so I thought everything was great. Then I eventually noticed my recovery partition was not cloned with the rest of my data.

I still have the old drive with the recovery partition and I have enough space to add the partition back to the current/new drive.

My question is: What is the easiest way to get my recovery partition back after losing it completely, without reinstalling from the internet (unless reinstalling won't mess with my data)? I have a USB enclosure for the drive that has the partition. I don't know if it matters, but I originally had Lion and upgraded to Mountain Lion.

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 Linux user, so pardon my ignorance in the Apple terminology.

I have a late 2011 MBP that I replaced the drive with an SSD. I didn't care about the contents so I just stuck in the drive and Apple magically gave me OSX Lion again. The SSD was too small, so I bought a bigger one and cloned the drive with SuperDuper. It took a long time to boot afterwards, but it did so I thought everything was great. Then I eventually noticed my recovery partition was not cloned with the rest of my data.

I still have the old drive with the recovery partition and I have enough space to add the partition back to the current/new drive.

My question is: What is the easiest way to get my recovery partition back after losing it completely, without reinstalling from the internet (unless reinstalling won't mess with my data)? I have a USB enclosure for the drive that has the partition. I don't know if it matters, but I originally had Lion and upgraded to Mountain Lion.

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I hope this question is different enough from the others that is doesn't get closed.

I am first time Mac user, long time Linux user, so pardon my ignorance in the Apple terminology.

I have a late 2011 MBP that I replaced the drive with an SSD. I didn't care about the contents so I just stuck in the drive and Apple magically gave me OSX Lion again. The SSD was too small, so I bought a bigger one and cloned the drive with SuperDuper. It took a long time to boot afterwards, but it did so I thought everything was great. Then I eventually noticed my recovery partition was not cloned with the rest of my data.

I still have the old drive with the recovery partition and I have enough space to add the partition back to the current/new drive.

My question is: What is the easiest way to get my recovery partition back after losing it completely, without reinstalling from the internet (unless reinstalling won't mess with my data)? I have a USB enclosure for the drive that has the partition. I don't know if it matters, but I originally had Lion and upgraded to Mountain Lion.