How can I recreate the recovery partiton

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Kemical

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Jul 3, 2011

• #1

Is there a way to recreate the Lion recovery partition? Due to some drive swapping/imaging I deleted mine and would like to get it back.

 

Lord Appleseed

macrumors 6502a

• Jul 3, 2011

• #2

Reinstall Lion. The Installation will see that it is missing and creates the partition.

 

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Kemical

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Jul 4, 2011

• #3

Thanks, that worked perfectly!

 

hellfried

macrumors regular

• Jul 5, 2011

• #4

Kemical said:

Is there a way to recreate the Lion recovery partition? Due to some drive swapping/imaging I deleted mine and would like to get it back.

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I did not do a clean install but upgraded straight to lion GM. Where do I find the recovery partition?

 

Lord Appleseed

macrumors 6502a

• Jul 5, 2011

• #5

hellfried said:

I did not do a clean install but upgraded straight to lion GM. Where do I find the recovery partition?

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You can't, it's hidden. If you need to recover then press "alt" on startup before the Apple logo appears.

 

hellfried

macrumors regular

• Jul 5, 2011

• #6

Lord Appleseed said:

You can't, it's hidden. If you need to recover then press "alt" on startup before the Apple logo appears.

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Thanks for that! 🙂

 

Cynicalone

macrumors 68040

• Jul 5, 2011

• #7

Lord Appleseed said:

You can't, it's hidden. If you need to recover then press "alt" on startup before the Apple logo appears.

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No it is "Command" and "R"

EDIT: But I suppose Option would get you to the HDD selection screen as well.

 

Lord Appleseed

macrumors 6502a

• Jul 5, 2011

• #8

Cynicalone said:

EDIT: But I suppose Option would get you to the HDD selection screen as well.

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Yes. Because thats what i do all the time when changing to Win7.

 

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atlasica

macrumors newbie

• Oct 27, 2011

• #9

Lord Appleseed said:

Reinstall Lion. The Installation will see that it is missing and creates the partition.

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I have a Bootcamp partition, will doing this break it when the Lion installer recreates the recovery partition?