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: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 499.1 GB disk0s2 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3 You could clone your existing drive "Crucial M4 SSD" to an external disk, then repartition and reinstall Lion, then clone it back, though reinstalling Lion over your existing volume may also work! You could also try downloading the Recovery Update and see if that can add it: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1464